ON A CHARACTERIZATION OF THE POISSON DISTRIBUTION,

Abstract

The paper considers a special model where an original observation from a discrete distribution is subject to damage according to binomial probability law. Based on such a model for the resulting observation a characterization of the Poisson distribution is obtained. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0622885

Entities

People

  • Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
  • Herman Rubin

Organizations

  • Michigan State University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Binomials
  • Data Science
  • Discrete Distribution
  • Information Science
  • Mathematics
  • Observation
  • Probability
  • Statistics

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Statistical inference.