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I need to fit a Poisson distribution to this set of data (no. of counts of radioactive decay)
The number of counts in a fixed time interval was recorded 500 times.
With the number of counts going from 0 - 9 respectively
39
106
130
100
67
34
15
7
1
1
I understand how to use the formula in simple probability situations but am a little stuck with this one.
I know the mean = the variance and worked that out to be 67.1 but when using this in the formlua I calculated explodes (shows math error).
Can someone help me please?
The number of counts in a fixed time interval was recorded 500 times.
With the number of counts going from 0 - 9 respectively
39
106
130
100
67
34
15
7
1
1
I understand how to use the formula in simple probability situations but am a little stuck with this one.
I know the mean = the variance and worked that out to be 67.1 but when using this in the formlua I calculated explodes (shows math error).
Can someone help me please?