In this article we review two historical approximations to the Poisson and binomial cumulative distribution functions (CDFs); that is, the Wilson—Hilferty and Camp—Paulson approximations. Both of ...

With increasing availability of powerful computing facilities an obvious candidate for consideration is now the multivariate log normal mixture of independent Poisson distributions, the multivariate ...

Key Takeaways The normal distribution formula is based on two simple parameters—mean and standard deviation—that quantify the characteristics of a given dataset.

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