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A visual depiction of a Poisson point process starting. In probability theory, statistics and related fields, a Poisson point process (also known as: Poisson random measure, Poisson random point field and Poisson point field) is a type of mathematical object that consists of points randomly located on a mathematical space with the essential feature that the points occur independently of one ...
In probability theory and statistics, the Poisson distribution (/ ˈ p w ɑː s ɒ n /; French pronunciation:) is a discrete probability distribution that expresses the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time if these events occur with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last event. [1]
A compound Poisson process is a continuous-time stochastic process with jumps. The jumps arrive randomly according to a Poisson process and the size of the jumps is also random, with a specified probability distribution.
In queueing theory, a discipline within the mathematical theory of probability, Burke's theorem (sometimes the Burke's output theorem [1]) is a theorem (stated and demonstrated by Paul J. Burke while working at Bell Telephone Laboratories) asserting that, for the M/M/1 queue, M/M/c queue or M/M/∞ queue in the steady state with arrivals is a Poisson process with rate parameter λ:
The Poisson random measure with intensity measure is a family of random variables {} defined on some probability space (,,) such that i) ∀ A ∈ A , N A {\displaystyle \forall A\in {\mathcal {A}},\quad N_{A}} is a Poisson random variable with rate μ ( A ) {\displaystyle \mu (A)} .
The poisson clumping heuristic (PCH), published by David Aldous in 1989, [7] is a model for finding first-order approximations over different areas in a large class of stationary probability models. The probability models have a specific monotonicity property with large exclusions .
One version of the theorem, [1] also known as Campbell's formula, [2]: 28 entails an integral equation for the aforementioned sum over a general point process, and not necessarily a Poisson point process. [2] There also exist equations involving moment measures and factorial moment measures that are considered versions of Campbell's formula.
There is no simple formula for the entropy of a Poisson binomial distribution, but the entropy is bounded above by the entropy of a binomial distribution with the same number parameter and the same mean. Therefore, the entropy is also bounded above by the entropy of a Poisson distribution with the same mean. [7]