Definition:Poisson Process
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Definition
A Poisson process is a stochastic process in which events occur at random, such that the distribution of the number of events occurring in any time interval depends only on the length of that interval.
Also see
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Source of Name
This entry was named for Siméon-Denis Poisson.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Poisson process
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Poisson process