Better Know a Distribution: The Poisson Distribution

Linear Digressions

• Episode: Better Know a Distribution: The Poisson Distribution
• Website: Linear Digressions
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• Duration: 00:31:51
• Published: 2018-10-22 02:53

The Poisson distribution is a probability distribution function used to for events that happen in time or space. It’s super handy because it’s pretty simple to use and is applicable for tons of things—there are a lot of interesting processes that boil down to “events that happen in time or space.” This episode is a quick introduction to the distribution, and then a focus on two of our favorite applications: using the Poisson distribution to identify supernovas and study army deaths from horse kicks.