Poisson distribution
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I cannot find the famous distribution that describes the frequency of the number of times a number comes up in a series of dice rolls?
I think the answer is the distribution was discovered by Siméon-Denis Poisson (1781-1840). In probability theory and statistics, the Poisson distribution is a discrete probability distribution. It expresses the probability of a number of events occurring in a fixed time if these events occur with a known average rate, and are independent of the time since the last event. Am I correct?
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This explains the nature of Poisson distribution.
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The correct answer is Binomial distribution or Bernoulli process propounded by Mr. Jacob Bernoulli.
As it satisfy the following condition:
1. It expresses ...
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