In
statistics, the displaced Poisson, also known as the hyper-Poisson distribution, is a generalization of the
Poisson distribution
In probability theory and statistics, the Poisson distribution is a discrete probability distribution that expresses the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space if these events occur with a known ...
.
The
probability
Probability is the branch of mathematics concerning numerical descriptions of how likely an Event (probability theory), event is to occur, or how likely it is that a proposition is true. The probability of an event is a number between 0 and ...
mass function is
:
where
and ''r'' is a new parameter; the Poisson distribution is recovered at ''r'' = 0. Here
is the Pearson's
incomplete gamma function:
:
where ''s'' is the integral part of ''r''.
The motivation given by Staff
is that the ratio of successive probabilities in the Poisson distribution (that is
) is given by
for
and the displaced Poisson generalizes this ratio to
.
References
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