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Poisson distribution is a special case of the Binomial (andrewchamberlain.com)
13 points by lordgrenville on Nov 29, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Is the more accurate statement "The Poisson distribution is the limit of the Binomial as n goes to infinity" not a better summary?


Maybe even better: it is the limit of the binomial distribution as the n goes to infinity with n * p constant, where p is the probability of success.


There is a dedicated wiki[1] page for relationship among probability distributions for anybody interested.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationships_among_probabilit...




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