The Poisson Distribution

In this video, I briefly discuss a situation that can be modeled by a Poisson Distribution, give the formula, and do a simple example illustrating the Poisson Distribution.
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[iamsopoor9]

My exam is tomorrow, why have I only found you today!!!

[patrickJMT]

@iamsopoor9 i dont know ; ) i have been here for a while now

[idster7]

0! is a non-zero number? i didn't know that.

[patrickJMT]

@idster7 it is equal to 1 by definition

[patrickJMT]

@MrBenloves ok. it is an irrational number, like pi; it just keeps going and going

[sami786]

@L0vingLifeEveryday theres two ways you could do that, u could accumulate all probabilities for three upto thirty and so that woul give u the probability of atLEAST three. An alternate option would be one minus the probability of zero, one and two- thus gives u the probability of 3 and above. REMEMBER tables can be used to make it least time consuming and more efficient- i would highly reccomend this for exam time purposes. Hope that answers your question.

[ScienceAndAtheism]

thanks for the video it really helped

[badshabz1]

does lambda = number x probability?

[badshabz1]

WOW you are way better then my teacher thanks man saved my life!!! subbed :)

[hsousa54]

Thank you. My prob and stat class is a joke. I needed this haha

[mdhalloran]

@Koni804 the ! is the factorial. ex: 4! = 4x3x2x1 = 24