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Some Applications of the Poisson Process
Department of Mathematics, Kean University, Union, USA
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Applied Mathematics·Volume 05 (2014)·Pages 3011–3017·Published 4 November 2014·DOI10.4236/am.2014.519288
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Abstract
The Poisson process is a stochastic process that models many real-world phenomena. We present the definition of the Poisson process and discuss some facts as well as some related probability distributions. Finally, we give some new applications of the process.
KeywordsPoisson ProcessesGamma DistributionInter-Arrival TimeMarked Poisson Processes
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