Poisson Distribution — Intuition, Examples, and Derivation
When should you use a Poisson Distribution?
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7 min readJun 1, 2019
Before we set the parameter λ and plug it into the formula, let’s pause for a second and ponder a few questions.
Why did Poisson have to invent the Poisson Distribution?
Why does this distribution exist (= why did he invent it)?
When is Poisson the appropriate choice for modeling?
