Interface
poisson(m:real) : int
where m>0.0
. Returns a drawing from a Poisson distribution with intensity m
.
Raises Poisson exception, if m<=0.0
.
Characteristics
- Mean:
m
- Variance:
m
Probability mass functions for Poisson distributions:

Probability mass functions for Poisson distributions
Example
poisson(100.0)
A company has a network with a certain load. Each second an average of 100
packets is sent to the network. The number of packets arriving to the network per second is Poisson distributed with intensity m=100.0
.
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