Questions tagged [poisson-process]
For questions about the theory or applications of the Poisson process, one of the most widely applied point processes in statistics and elsewhere.
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Extension of Poisson Parameter for Different Temporal Interval
Suppose $Y$ follows a Poisson distribution with parameter $ \lambda $ that explains a temporal Poisson process over an interval of 30 seconds.
Now, it stands to reason that for an interval of 60 ...
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Test and CI for unstable Poisson process
I have empirical data on a process that I assume is Poisson with a given mean, say $\mu$ (unknown). The data is of the form $(x_i, 1\leq i\leq n)$ for $n$ consecutive time periods.
I am concerned ...
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Upper confidence bound for Poisson process rate parameter
I am interested in computing an upper confidence bound for the rate parameter, $\lambda$, in a Poisson process. Specifically, I have a set of observations $$
X_\text{obs} = \{(n_1,t_1), \ldots, (n_N,...
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Alternating between two states {A, B} each with exp distributed durations. What's the probability of state=A at time t?
Say I have a light bulb that can be on (A) or off (B). It alternates between being state A or B. It will be in state A for a duration a ~ exp(α), and in state B for duration b ~ exp(β), (...
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Conditional distribution of arrival times in Poisson process
Suppose I know over a window $[0, T)$ that I have observed $n$ samples from a poisson process $N_t \sim p(n|\lambda t) = \frac{1}{n!}(\lambda t)^{n}\exp(-\lambda t)$.
What is the conditional ...
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Poisson Process With Two Different Rates
I am looking to investigate a Poisson Process that has two separate rates; essentially, there is a season of games that each have their own points rate (per minute). Comprehensively, over the season, ...
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Overdispersion under different longitudinal constraints
I have panel data (police districts observed across many months) and I am modeling a count outcome. Fitting a Poisson model (simple pre/post comparison with 6 months of data) results in significantly ...
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How to compute the expected number of events in the following conditional renewal process?
I have a stochastic point process with event times $\{x_1, x_2, ...\} $ and I want to compute the expected number of events $n(T)$ over the interval $[0,T]$. The point process is generated as follows:
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How to show the inter-arrival time variance of a Cox process driven by a stationary Poisson process of constant intensity $\lambda$ is $3\lambda$
Ideas on how to show that the variance of a doubly-stochastic Poisson process(aka a Cox process) driven by a homogeneous(stationary) Poisson process of intensity $\lambda$ is $3\lambda$ ?
I've come ...
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To detect which of the three processes more-aptly fits Poisson process
There happens to be a type of generic poll, which can be described as:-
A participant can vote only once and for only 1 of 3 running candidates - Red, Blue and Green. A random voter starts the ...
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Solving an equation with logarithms of negative numbers
I'm modelling a bunch of non-homogeneous poisson processes. I'm impossing on them a linear-log functional form. you end up with two parameters, theta1 and theta0 for each estimated process.
The ...
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Understanding the solution to a problem about a homogeneous Poisson process
This is probably easy, but right now I can't figure it out, so bear with me. The question is:
Let $\{N(t),t\ge 0\}$ be a homogeneous Poisson process on $(0,\infty)$ with rate $\lambda$. Let $\{S_i, i=...
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Manually simulating Poisson Process in R
The following problem tells us to generate a Poisson process step by step from $\rho$ (inter-arrival time), and $\tau$ (arrival time).
One of the theoretical results presented in the lectures ...
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Is this problem worked out correctly? [closed]
Calls are received at a company call center according to a Poisson process at the rate of five calls per minute.
(a) Find the probability that no call occurs over a 30-second period.
(b) Find the ...
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Expectation of arrival times
Let $(N_t)_t$ be a Poisson process with parameter λ = 2. By $τ_k$ denote the time of the k-th arrival (k = 1, 2, . . .), and by $ρ_k = τ_k −τ_{k−1}$ - the interarrival time between the (k−1)th and kth ...
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How to check if a data is poisson sampled?
I was reading one article which develops a theory for the Poisson sampled data. That is the data is collected over time-points $\{T_k, k>1\}$, which are jump-moments of a homogeneous Poisson ...
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What is the difference between time, arrival-time, and inter-arrival-time is poisson process?
Let $(N_t)_t$ be a Poisson process with parameter λ = 2. By $τ_k$ denote the time of the k-th arrival (k = 1, 2, . . .), and by $ρ_k = τ_k −τ_{k−1}$ - the interarrival time between the (k−1)th and kth ...
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How to properly truncate exponential distribution to represent random memory-less arrivals?
Typically, Poisson and exponential distributions are used to represent random memory-less arrival processes. It has come to my attention, however, that a more realistic distribution is a truncated (or ...
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Distribution of the y-coordinate of a 2D Poisson Process
Consider a Poisson process with rate 1 over $R_+ \times R$. I found this term in a scientific article, I assume it means :
-The number of points in a subset $A$ of $R_+ \times R$ has the Poisson ...
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Generating Arrival Counts Given Time
I'm looking to generate arrival counts given a length of time for a Poisson process. This is similar to another question, however rather than generate the particular arrivals, I'd like to just get the ...
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Poisson process - measuring empirical changes
I was recently discussing Poisson processes in industrial settings with a colleague and he came up with a great question.
Let's say that defective products on a manufacturing line tend to occur ...
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Simulating a (discretized) Cox process via binomial sampling
Let X be a Cox process (doubly-stochastic Poisson process) with fixed intensity(rate) $\lambda=50$ , and choose some small time interval $dt=0.01$ . Is the proper way to simulate this, by letting Y ...
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Inhomogeneous K-function to indicate need for spatial dependence/interaction term in Poisson point process model
I am mapping and modelling a disease of sheep. I have approx 4200 point locations in my dataset, each of which represents the centroid of a given sheep farm.
I have created a K-function difference ...
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Proof for simulation of NHPP by thinning
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I'm trying to show equivalency between the density function for a non-homogenous exponential process (NHEP?), (i.e. the arrival times of events generated by a non-homogenous Poisson ...
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two independent Poisson Arrivals
I have two types of customers (type 1 and type 2) enter a shop. Their arrival processes are independent and follow Poisson process with the arrival rates of $\lambda_1$ and $\lambda_2.$
Consider two ...
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Expected time to wait for no events to occur within a sliding window assuming Poissson process
I wish to model the following:
I am maintaining a sliding window (history) of 10 samples of the output of a signal detector.
I model the probability of a detection failure (i.e absence of signal) as ...
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Poisson Process Simple Question
The number of customers that arrive at a cashpoint in an hour is distributed poisson($\lambda$). Suppose that each arriving customer makes a draft. Let $Y_i$ denote the amount of money $i^{th}$ ...
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Probability Density function of Poisson distribution
This is an assignment I got for my course on Stochastic Processes:
Let us consider a random variable X distributed as a Poisson P (λ)
where λ ∼ [0.5, 1].
(a) Which are the unconditional ...
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Poisson and conditional probability
Admit that the number of participants who intend to enroll in a given training follows a Poisson distribution with a mean of $12.$ If there is not a minimum of five enrollments, training is not ...
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Compound risk poisson models
I was just working through this question.
A compound Poisson risk model is used to model the total claims S
experienced by an insurance company over one year, of the form:
$S = X_1 + ... + X_n$
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Intensity function in Poisson random effect model
I have a somewhat general question about intensity functions in Poisson random effect models.
Consider the Poisson random effects model in which conditional on a random effect $u$, an individual ...
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Coverage of a Boolean model
The following problem I am working on involves the coverage of Boolean Model (BM).
The grains in the BM are discs with fixed radius $r$. $A$ is the set of this BM in space $ \mathbb R^2 $ and $K$ ...
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Correcting data using poisson-regression
I'm new to stats and
I was wondering if anyone had any good resources that could explain to me:
How one can correct their data (false-positives) using Poisson-regression.
I've been looking for some ...
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How to model arrival times in discrete event simulation where arrivals vary with time of day and day of week
I'm looking for suggestions on how to model inter-arrival times in a discrete event simulation where the arrival rate is highly dependent on the day of week and the hour of day.
For example:
A ...
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The probability distribution of waiting time until two exponentially distributed events with different parameters both occur
I am working on a problem related to the waiting time until a parking garage is empty. We are given that the cars independently spend an
exponential distributed time in the parking garage, with ...
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Partial imputation of missing dates
I'm working with dataframes (one for each of 185 locations) that shows sums of occurrences for each calendar date. There are no 0 values for occurrences in the entire dataset. There are several ...
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Computing probabilities of comparisons of exponential random variables
I am working on a question for class where there are two patients waiting on kidneys. The arrival of transplant kidneys is a Poisson process with rate λ. A will die after an exponential time with rate ...
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question regarding a stochastic process
Say let $Y_1, Y_2,...$ be a family of i.i.d random variables with a common $\mu$ and common variance $\sigma^2$. Let $N_t$ be a Poisson process with rate $\lambda >0 $. Assume that $N_t$ is ...
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Simulate an arrival time - Cox Process?
If I simulate arrival times using a Poisson process where the input to the Poisson process is also a Poisson process.
Input arrival rate = L
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Point process - intensity function vs probability density function
Suppose we have a point process in $\mathbb{R}$ with intensity $\lambda(x)$. Then, for a given compact set ${ S}$ we have
$$\Lambda({ S})=\int_{\rm S} \lambda(x) \, dx,$$
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Does exponential waiting time for an event imply that the event is Poisson-process?
Say I have a process, $\{N_t : t \ge 0\}$, which denotes the number of the event that occurred until the time $t$.
And let me define $W = \min \{t : N_t = 1\}$ which is denotes the time until the ...
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Nonhomogeneous poisson process simulation
I've been looking at ways to generate a Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process (NHPP) including the nonlinear time transformation (using a rate-1 process and inverting the cumulative rate function). I've also ...
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Conditional expectation of Poisson process given number of events
Let $\{N(t), t\geq 0\}$ be a Poisson process with rate $\lambda$, $S_n$ the instant of the $n$-th arrival and $T_n$ the $n$-th interarrival time, that is, $T_n = S_n - S_{n-1}$, $n \geq 1$.
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Poisson process and queuing system
In a queuing system, the inter-arrival times are known to be exponentially distributed.
My textbook states: "It can be shown that, if the underlying distribution of inter-arrival times { T1, T2, ..., ...
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Non homogenous Poisson process with simple rates
I am trying to stimulate number of claims in the next 12 months using a non-homogeneous poisson process. The rates are:
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Trajectory of homogeneous poisson process
I am trying to simulate number of claims in next 12 months using a homogeneous poisson process following the R codes:
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Problems on Poisson process
Consider a homogeneous Poisson process with inter-arrival times $T_i$, which follows the exponential distribution with rate $\lambda$. Let $N(t)$ denote the number of arrivals by time $t$.
Suppose I ...
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Error prediction for poisson process
A Poisson process has rate of N per unit length per unit time. The events occur uniformly on the x-axis but I always have measurement error of greater than 1/N. I was wondering is it possible that I ...
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Gamma Conjugate Prior & Poisson Process
I am analyzing daily data transaction data.
I am assuming that
The number of transactions in every day of length t has the Poisson distribution with mean λt
The number of transactions in evert ...
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Poisson process (find mean) - solution check
Mary receives 22 messages in 5 hours according to a Poisson Process. What is the mean number of messages Mary receives in an hour?
Seems like a simple question, so just to confirm: Mean = 22/5
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