This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The Poisson distribution played a key role in experiments that had a historic role in the development of molecular biology. In particular, the ...

In a finite series of independent success-failure trials, the total number of successes has a binomial probability distribution. It is a classical result that this probability distribution is subject ...

A statistical method developed by the 18th century French mathematician S. D. Poisson, which is used for predicting the probable distribution of a series of events. For example, when the average ...