Injury incidence can be transformed into average probability of injury using a simple Poisson distribution model. Probabilities are the most familiar method of communicating risk to the public, ...

A Poisson distribution is a statistical distribution showing the likely number of times that an event will occur within a specified period of time.

The Poisson distribution is widely used in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. In Bayesian inference, probability distributions often help solve problems that would otherwise be ...

A discrete distribution is a statistical probability distribution that represents the possible discrete values a variable can take.

C. D. Kemp, Adrienne W. Kemp, Poisson Random Variate Generation, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 40, No. 1 (1991), pp ...