POISSON function | poisson distribution excel
ReturnsthePoissondistribution.AcommonapplicationofthePoissondistributionispredictingthenumberofeventsoveraspecifictime,suchasthenumberofcarsarrivingatatollplazain1minute. Important: Thisfunctionhasbeenreplacedwithoneormorenewfunctionsthatmayprovideimprovedaccuracyandwhosenamesbetterreflecttheirusage.Althoughthisfunctionisstillavailableforbackwardcompatibility,youshouldconsiderusingthenewfunctionsfromnowon,becausethisfunctionmaynotbeavailableinfutureversionsofExcel. Formorei...
Returns the Poisson distribution. A common application of the Poisson distribution is predicting the number of events over a specific time, such as the number of cars arriving at a toll plaza in 1 minute.
Important: This function has been replaced with one or more new functions that may provide improved accuracy and whose names better reflect their usage. Although this function is still available for backward compatibility, you should consider using the new functions from now on, because this function may not be available in future versions of Excel.
For more information about the new function, see POISSON.DIST function[1].
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