Skip to main content
5 of 5
edited title
user5054
  • 1.6k
  • 5
  • 22
  • 36

Normalizing (or standardizing) Poisson data

Let's say we have $k$ vectors each containing $n$ non-negative integers (counts), and we know that each of those vectors are distributed by a Poisson, each with a very different mean. I am wondering whether there is a way to normalize each of those $k$ vectors such that each of resulting $k$ vectors is approximately distributed by a Poisson with mean 1. That is, I am looking for a Poisson counterpart of subtracting the mean value from each of Gaussian vectors which result in each vector being a 0-mean Gaussian.

user5054
  • 1.6k
  • 5
  • 22
  • 36