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The Poisson Arrival
Properties of a Poisson Process
For a length of time
t
, the probability of
n
arrivals in
t
units of time is
For 2 disjoint (non-overlapping) intervals,
and
, (i.e.
), the number of arrivals in
is independent of the number of arrivals in
.
Ken Vastola
Fri Mar 15 14:12:07 EST 1996
and 
,
(i.e. 
), the number of arrivals in 
is independent of the number of arrivals in 
.