A ‘striking’ demonstration of the poisson distribution

Teaching Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 8-10

  Buonaccorsi, Vincent ^a   Skibiel, Amy ^a  

^a JUNIATA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Intellectual excitement; Long term learning; Poisson demonstration; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958559282     PISSN: 0141982X     EISSN: 14679639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2005.00189.x     Document Type: Article

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