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Re: Help needed!! [message #70559 is a reply to message #70513] Mon, 19 April 2010 11:26 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
David Fanning is currently offline  David Fanning
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Craig Markwardt writes:

> A Poisson deviate is the thing you originally desired! A single
> Poisson deviate is one random draw from the Poisson distribution. A
> histogram of N deviates will approximate the Poisson distribution, and
> as N tends to infinity, the histogram will tend to the Poisson
> distribution exactly.

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

From The Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot

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Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thos speakest truth.")
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