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- We will briefly sketch some techniques which at their most
elementary, justify Poisson for a counting experiment.
- The more advanced applications are important in many practical
problems (telephones (random calls) and biology (random birth/deaths)),
involving happenings distributed more or less randomly in times.
- We start with a discrete (as opposed to continuous) example:
Telephone calls.
- Suppose your favorite secretary receives N telephone calls in
an hour.
- We wish to find the probability that she received k calls in a
given time t
Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu