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Poisson Distribution

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In the binomial distribution where n is quite large, it’s usually a tedious job to calculate k! when computer was not available back in the 18th to early 20th century. So Simeon Denis Poisson, a French mathematician came up with a approximation, which proves to be working quite well with a small p.

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A greenhorn coder and a big fan of math.