Math 300 , Spring 2004, Day 14, W, March 3 Hit reload to get most current version

In class closed book Quiz Monday day 16: all the "Named" distributions.  Practice Sheet (don't hand in).

Poisson distribution  Day 13 first.Poisson area

X =Number of "hits" in a fixed interval of space or time (interval can be area or volume)
Lambda = np = expected number of hits/successes in the whole interval (whole n trials).
|___|_x_|___|___|__x|___|x__|___| 8 trials, 3 hits

HW  Poisson HW on Day 13
HW Do London Bombs page: exercise in Poisson in Area context, real data.  Hand in answers to Part A (noncomputer), and comments on what you saw in simulations (Part B)

Next: "Expectation" Ash Ch. 3: 3.1, 3.2 (& 3.4).  Expectation of X = mean of X
M&M  Means and Variances 4.4 pp317-330 (lightly over Laws of Large Numbers). (Reading--zigzag between texts)
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