Poisson Distribution
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Hi everyone,
Is it possible to generate non-integer Poisson random numbers? The poissrnd function appears to generate integer random numbers only ...
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Walter Roberson
on 5 Mar 2012
What would a non-integral number of observations even mean for a Poisson process? Poisson processes inherently deal with discrete number of occurrences.
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Walter Roberson
on 5 Mar 2012
Yes, certainly. For example if I expect one event every two intervals, then lambda would be 1/2. But still for any one discrete interval, the number of events that occurred in that interval is going to be an integer.
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