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Noun: Poisson distribution
  1. (statistics) a theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large

Derived forms: Poisson distributions

Type of: distribution, probability distribution, statistical distribution

Encyclopedia: Poisson distribution

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