POISSON DISTRIBUTION

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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

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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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