Uploaded January 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
A not-too-technical look at the conditions required for a random variable to have a Poisson distribution. It can be difficult to determine whether a random variable actually has a Poisson distribution, so here I look at a few examples and some visual illustrations that may help. There are no probability calculations carried out in this video. I assume that the viewer has already been introduced to the Poisson distribution, but I do a brief review at the start.
A not-too-technical look at the conditions required for a random variable to have a Poisson distribution. It can be difficult to determine whether a random variable actually has a Poisson distribution, so here I look at a few examples and some visual illustrations that may help. There are no probability calculations carried out in this video. I assume that the viewer has already been introduced to the Poisson distribution, but I do a brief review at the start.
