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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 : P(X=n) = \begin e^\dfrac\cdot\dfrac, \quad n=0,1,2,\ldots &\text r\geq 0\\ 0pt e^\dfrac\cdot\dfrac,\quad n=s,s+1,s+2,\ldots &\text \end where \lambda>0 and ''r'' is a new parameter; the Poisson distribution is recovered at ''r'' = 0. Here I\left(r,\lambda\right) is the Pearson's incomplete gamma function: : I(r,\lambda)=\sum^\infty_\frac, 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 P(X=n)/P(X=n-1)) is given by \lambda/n for n>0 and the displaced Poisson generalizes this ratio to \lambda/\left(n+r\right).


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{{stat-stub Discrete distributions