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Six Ways of Looking at a Cat: The Probabilist

August 2, 2017Original blog post

The probabilist models cat scratching as a Poisson process: ~ Po(λ).

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Probabilist: The probabilist models cat scratching as a Poisson process: ~ Po(λ).

Topics
Probability › Distributions › Poisson Distribution
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High SchoolCollege
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