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Also, when would one use this distribution ?
  

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Generally speaking, the Poisson distribution can be used for probability problems where only the expected number of occurrences is known. Specifically, it gives us the probability of a given number of events happening in a fixed interval of time.

For example, one would use the Poisson distribution for problems like: counts per unit time, defects per unit area, events per unit length, etc .

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