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		Rant423 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Derivation and Intuition behind Poisson distributi... An application of the Poisson distribution (1946) https://garcialab.berkeley.edu/courses/papers/Clarke1946.pdf

tatrajim 7 months ago [–]

Famously used by Thomas Pynchon in Gravity's Rainbow. The notion of obtaining a distribution of random rocket attacks blew my young mind and prompted a life-long interest in the sturdy of statistics.

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