Poisson distribution : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Poisson distribution	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Poisson distribution
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Poisson distribution n a theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Poisson distribution A {probability distribution} used to describe the occurrence of unlikely events in a large number of independent trials. Poisson distributions are often used in building simulated user loads. [Formula?] (2003-03-18)