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In what case would the Poisson distribution be a good approximation of the binomial? |
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Answer» Answer: The approximation works very WELL for n values as low as n = 100, and p values as high as 0.02. The FIGURE below PLOTS these two distributions together and shows how closely the Binomial distribution is approximated by the Poisson distribution in such limiting CASES. |
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