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The Poisson Distribution

Syntax

dpois(x, lambda)
ppois(q, lambda)
qpois(p, lambda)
rpois(n, lambda)

Arguments

x vector of (positive) quantiles.
p vector of probabilities.
n number of random values to return.
lambda vector of positive means.

Description

These functions provide information about the Poisson distribution with parameter lambda. dpois gives the density, ppois gives the distribution function qpois gives the quantile function and rpois generates random deviates.

The Poisson distribution has density

p(x) = lambda^x exp(-lambda)/x!

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for x = 0, 1, 2, ....

Examples

-log(dpois(0:7, lambda=1) * gamma(1+ 0:7)) Ni <- rpois(50, lam= 4); table(factor(Ni, 0:max(Ni)))