Poissonian

//pwɑːˈsəʊ.ni.ən// adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A Poisson distribution.

    "Analysis of the actual data is plotted as a solid line, the corresponding distribution made by superimposing Poissonians is shown as a dotted line, and the exponential decay with same mean interval as the solid line is shown as a dashed line."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to the Poisson distribution. not-comparable

    "We saw that the observation of Poissonian and super-Poissonian statistics could be explained by classical wave theory, but not sub-Poissonian statistics."

Example

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"We saw that the observation of Poissonian and super-Poissonian statistics could be explained by classical wave theory, but not sub-Poissonian statistics."

Etymology

From Poisson + -ian.

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