– what is Poisson Distribution?
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It’s a particular kind of “probability distribution” that is a representation of “how many times x happens in y time” where x is some semi-random event, and y is some standard interval. It works because a lot of times, randomness follows trends, and we can quantify those trends.
Poisson distribution tells you probabilities for having a certain number of events occur in a given amount of time (counting 1,2,3,…) if there a huge punt of possibilities for the event to occur but it’s rare for any single event to happen (*some* customers will come to the store in an hour, but any individual customer has a really low probability of showing up).
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