A statistical method developed by the 18th century French mathematician S. D. Poisson, which is used for predicting the probable distribution of a series of events. For example, when the average ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The Poisson distribution played a key role in experiments that had a historic role in the development of molecular biology. In particular, the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Brown and Zhao (2012) (Sankhyā, Series A, Volume 64, pp 611-625) developed a new test for the Poisson distribution and compared it with the ...

*Update (8 January 2013): After I wrote this article, I heard that Mother Jones put their data of US mass shootings online. Going through this data, I realized that I made a number of errors in ...

This study extends the Poisson binomial distribution by introducing correlation and dependence between binomial events, enhancing its ability to capture complex event types and improving model ...