Poisson process

About this app

Rare, independent events with rate λ: arrivals on a timeline, a histogram of the event count against the Poisson PMF, exponential waiting times. The characteristic property mean = variance = λ — customer arrivals, claims, defects.

Subject: Statistics

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• Anscombe's quartet
• Bias-variance / overfitting
• Law of large numbers
• Hypothesis test & p-value
• Confidence interval
• Measures of location & spread
• Measures of location & spread 2.0
• Logistic regression

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