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If this is the only information that you have then you must use the Poisson distribution.

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Q: Should you use the Binomial Normal or Poisson distribution if in the past few years an average of 10 businesses closed and I want to find the probability of more than 10 businesses closing next year?
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What is the difference between poisson and binomial distribution?

Poisson and Binomial both the distribution are used for defining discrete events.You can tell that Poisson distribution is a subset of Binomial distribution. Binomial is the most preliminary distribution to encounter probability and statistical problems. On the other hand when any event occurs with a fixed time interval and having a fixed average rate then it is Poisson distribution.


What is the Assumptions for a Binomial distribution and Poisson?

For the binomial, it is independent trials and a constant probability of success in each trial.For the Poisson, it is that the probability of an event occurring in an interval (time or space) being constant and independent.


How many experimental outcomes are possible for the binomial and the Poisson distributions?

The binomial distribution is a discrete probability distribution. The number of possible outcomes depends on the number of possible successes in a given trial. For the Poisson distribution there are Infinitely many.


How do you differentiate a Poisson distribution and a binomial one in a level qns?

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Is the Poisson probability distribution discrete or continuous?

The Poisson distribution is discrete.


What does probalility distribution mean?

In parametric statistical analysis we always have some probability distributions such as Normal, Binomial, Poisson uniform etc.In statistics we always work with data. So Probability distribution means "from which distribution the data are?


What kind of distributions are the binomial and poisson distribution?

Discrete


Is the sample size in poisson probability distribution?

It can be.


The binomial and Poisson distributions are examples of discrete probability distributions?

discrete & continuous


What is relation between binomial multinomial hypergeometric and poisson probability?

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What is the difference between poisson distribution and poisson process?

A poisson process is a non-deterministic process where events occur continuously and independently of each other. An example of a poisson process is the radioactive decay of radionuclides. A poisson distribution is a discrete probability distribution that represents the probability of events (having a poisson process) occurring in a certain period of time.


Can you use the formulas for a probability distribution to calculate parameters for a binomial probability distribution or can you just use the given formulas for a binomial probability distribution?

This depends on what information you have. If you know the success probability and the total number of observations, you can use the given formulas. Most of the time, this is the case. If you have data or experience which allow you to estimate the parameters, it may sometimes happen that you work like this. This mostly happens when n is very large and p very small which results in an approximation with the Poisson distribution.