dist_poisson: The Poisson Distribution

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The Poisson Distribution

Description

Poisson distributions are frequently used to model counts.

Usage

dist_poisson(lambda)

Arguments

lambda

vector of (non-negative) means.

Details

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In the following, let X be a Poisson random variable with parameter lambda = \lambda.

Support: \{0, 1, 2, 3, ...\}

Mean: \lambda

Variance: \lambda

Probability mass function (p.m.f):

P(X = k) = \frac{\lambda^k e^{-\lambda}}{k!}

Cumulative distribution function (c.d.f):

P(X \le k) = e^{-\lambda} \sum_{i = 0}^{\lfloor k \rfloor} \frac{\lambda^i}{i!}

Moment generating function (m.g.f):

E(e^{tX}) = e^{\lambda (e^t - 1)}

See Also

stats::Poisson

Examples

dist <- dist_poisson(lambda = c(1, 4, 10))

dist
mean(dist)
variance(dist)
skewness(dist)
kurtosis(dist)

generate(dist, 10)

density(dist, 2)
density(dist, 2, log = TRUE)

cdf(dist, 4)

quantile(dist, 0.7)

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