is poisson distribution used in biology to find the probability of a number of events occurring in a fixed period of time ?????
help please, i cant decide whether or not to try and apply it. thank you
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is poisson distribution used in biology to find the probability of a number of events occurring in a fixed period of time ?????
help please, i cant decide whether or not to try and apply it. thank you
It could be, depending on the science of the underlying process. Poisson distribution is used when the event occurences are independent of each other.
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