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A discrete distribution defined on the non-negative integers that has the property that the mean is equal to the variance.

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Is the sum of several Poisson processes a Poisson process?

I would like to write an application that emits events distributed by a Poisson process with some $\lambda$ I need to separate the generation of these events in multiple processes, but I only have a …
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Modeling a Poisson process with 10000 events per minute

I am trying to model a system that generates events modeled by a Poisson process. I am using the following ruby code: INTERVAL = 0.005 LAMBDA = 167.0 events = Hash.new(0) def f(x, lambda) 1 - Mat …
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