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Probability Mass Function | The Poisson distribution is used to model the number of events occurring within a given time interval.The formula for the Poisson probability mass function is is the shape parameter which indicates the average number of events in the given time interval. The following is the plot of the Poisson probability density function for four values of . | ||||||||||||||
Cumulative Distribution Function | The formula for the Poisson cumulative probability function is The following is the plot of the Poisson cumulative distribution function with the same values of as the pdf plots above. | ||||||||||||||
Percent Point Function | The Poisson percent point function does not exist in simple closed form. It is computed numerically. Note that because this is a discrete distribution that is only defined for integer values of x, the percent point function is not smooth in the way the percent point function typically is for a continuous distribution.The following is the plot of the Poisson percent point function with the same values of as the pdf plots above. | ||||||||||||||
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Parameter Estimation | The maximum likelihood estimator of is where is the sample mean. | ||||||||||||||
Software | Most general purpose statistical software programs support at least some of the probability functions for the Poisson distribution. |
Double Exponential Distribution Probability Density Function The general formula for the probability density function of the double exponential distribution is where is the location parameter and is the scale parameter . The case where = 0 and = 1 is called the standard double exponential distribution . The equation for the standard double exponential distribution is Since the general form of probability functions can be expressed in terms of the standard distribution , all subsequent formulas in this section are given for the standard form of the function. The following is the plot of the double exponential probability density function. Cumulative Distribution Function The formula for the cumulative distribution function of the double exponential distribution is The following is the plot of the double exponential cumulative distribution function. Percent Point Function The formula for the percent point function of the double exponential distribution
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