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    POISSON DISTRIBUTION

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     I. (noun) 

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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 largeplay

    Classified under:

    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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