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Poisson distribution is a special case of the Binomial
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lordgrenville
on Nov 29, 2020
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bsmith89
on Nov 29, 2020
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Is the more accurate statement "The Poisson distribution is the limit of the Binomial as n goes to infinity" not a better summary?
bluepoint
on Nov 29, 2020
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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.
iamcreasy
on Nov 30, 2020
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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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