Poisson Distribution

Definition: The Poisson distribution is a discrete distribution. Possible values for x are the integers 1,2,3,...

Denoting mean as mu, the Poisson distribution has mean mu, variance mu, and pdf (e^-mumu^-x)/x!. Moment-generating function (mgf) is exp(mu(e^t-1)).

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