Word.ws English Dictionary

Poisson distributions

Poisson distributions is the plural of Poisson distribution.

Meaning of Poisson distribution

Noun

Poisson distribution (plural Poisson distributions)

  1. Any of a class of discrete probability distributions that express the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed time interval, where the events occur independently and at a constant average rate; describable as a limit case of either binomial or negative binomial distributions.
    • For the modeling of many phenomena there is a need for enlarging the family of Poisson distributions. One possibility of doing this is the use of mixed Poisson distributions (outlined above).1993, Rolf-Dieter Reiss, A Course on Point Processes, Springer, page 62

Questions about Poisson distributions

What is Poisson distributions the plural of?
Poisson distributions is the plural of Poisson distribution.

Words near Poisson distributions in the dictionary

  1. Poissants
  2. poissarde
  3. poissardes
  4. Poisson
  5. Poisson distribution
  6. Poisson distributions
  7. Poisson effect
  8. Poisson effects
  9. Poisson noise
  10. Poisson noises
  11. Poisson process

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Poisson distributions (page history and authors); Poisson distribution (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Poisson distributions.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/poisson_distributions. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.