statistics v0.5.0 Statistics.Distributions.Poisson
The Poisson distribution is a discrete probablility distribution.
It models the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval if the events occur with a known average rate and are independent of the previous event.
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Functions
Get the probability that a value lies below k
Probability mass function
The percentile-point function
Draw a random number from this distribution
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Get the probability that a value lies below k
Examples
iex> Statistics.Distributions.Poisson.cdf(1).(1) 0.73575888234288467
Probability mass function
Examples
iex> Statistics.Distributions.Poisson.pmf(1).(1)
0.36787944117144233
The percentile-point function
Get the maximum point which lies below the given probability. This is the inverse of the cdf and will take only positive integer values (but returns a float)
Examples
iex> Statistics.Distributions.Poisson.ppf(1).(0.95)
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