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Re: Help needed!! [message #70561 is a reply to message #70513]

Mon, 19 April 2010 11:21

Craig Markwardt
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On Apr 19, 1:16 pm, bala murugan <bala2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 17, 11:07 am, "R.G. Stockwell" <noem...@please.com> wrote:
>
>> "bala murugan" <bala2...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
>> news:29ee4ec6-4803-44fd-aa5c-00fc0d2c9376@u21g2000yqc.google groups.com...
>
>> one general piece of advice, if you plan on doing a fair bit of IDL
>> programming
>> in the future, is to get David Fannings book and read it completely
>> (then read it again).
>
>> http://www.dfanning.com/documents/books.html
>
>> Also, many questions have already been answered on his website.http://www.dfanning.com/
>
>> cheers,
>> bob
>
> Thanks for the advice :).
>
> I have a question in statistics.
>
> What is a poisson deviate ?
>
> Is it a point in the poisson distribution curve?
>
> Can anybody explain it?

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.

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		Help needed!! By: bala murugan on Fri, 16 April 2010 08:49
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		Re: Help needed!! By: bala murugan on Tue, 20 April 2010 10:43
		Re: Help needed!! By: David Fanning on Mon, 19 April 2010 11:26
		Re: Help needed!! By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 19 April 2010 11:21

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