Poisson Definition

poissons
noun
(mathematics) The Poisson distribution.
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pronoun
Siméon Denis Poisson (1781-1840), French mathematician.
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Other Word Forms of Poisson

Noun

Singular:
poisson
Plural:
poissons

Origin of Poisson

  • After Siméon Denis Poisson (1781-1840), French mathematician.

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Poisson Sentence Examples

  • A list of Poisson's works, drawn up by himself, is given at the end of Arago's biography.

  • So highly did he think of Poisson's memoir that he made a copy of it with his own hand, which was found among his papers after his death.

  • The result, however, of Poisson's investigation is practically equivalent to that already obtained by Laplace.

  • As these indices represent discontinuous data, it would be preferable to use the negative binomial or the Poisson distribution.

  • The POISSON keyword returns a random deviate drawn from a Poisson distribution with that mean.

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Words Starting With P and Ending With N

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