HyperDic: poisson_distribution

English > 1 sense of the expression Poisson distribution:
NOUNcognitionPoisson distributiona theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large
English > Poisson distribution: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition
MeaningA theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large.
CategorystatisticsA branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters
Broaderdistribution, statistical distribution(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence
CatalanDistribució de Poisson

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