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POISSON DISTRIBUTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Poisson distribution" is a kind of...):
distribution; statistical distribution ((statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence)
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)
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