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    A statistics professor finds that when he schedules an office hour at the 10:30 a.m. time slot, an average of three students arrives. Use the Poisson distribution to find the probability that in a randomly selected office hour no students will arrive. Step 1) Go to my “Poisson” Excel File Step 2) Input 3 under “Mean” in the green (make sure you hit “enter”) Step 3) Voila, you can see in the attached spreadsheet that we now have the probability of exactly 0 to be 0.0498 (I have highlighted it in yellow)

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    A statistics professor finds that when he schedules an office hour at the 10:30 a.m. time slot, an average of three students arrives. Use the Poisson distribution to find the probability that in a randomly selected office hour no students will arrive. Step 1) Go to my “Poisson” Excel File Step 2) Input 3 under “Mean” in the green (make sure you hit “enter”) Step 3) Voila, you can see in the attached spreadsheet that we now have the probability of exactly 0 to be 0.0498 (I have highlighted it in yellow)

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    Poisson Example Problem Students

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    A statistics professor finds that when he schedules an office hour at the 10:30 a.m. time slot, an average of three students arrives. Use the Poisson distribution to find the probability that in a randomly selected office hour no students will arrive. Step 1) Go to my “Poisson” Excel File Step 2) Input 3 under “Mean” in the green (make sure you hit “enter”) Step 3) Voila, you can see in the attached spreadsheet that we now have the probability of exactly 0 to be 0.0498 (I have highlighted it in yellow)

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    Poisson Distribution

    Mean Variance Stdev


    3 3 1.7320508

    x P(Exactly x) P(At most x) P(At least x)


    P(Exactly x)
    0 0.0498 0.0498 1.0000 0.25
    1 0.1494 0.1991 0.9502
    2 0.2240 0.4232 0.8009
    3 0.2240 0.6472 0.5768
    4 0.1680 0.8153 0.3528 0.2
    5 0.1008 0.9161 0.1847
    6 0.0504 0.9665 0.0839
    7 0.0216 0.9881 0.0335 0.15
    8 0.0081 0.9962 0.0119
    9 0.0027 0.9989 0.0038
    10 0.0008 0.9997 0.0011
    0.1
    11 0.0002 0.9999 0.0003
    12 0.0001 1.0000 0.0001
    13 0.0000 1.0000 0.0000
    14 0.0000 1.0000 0.0000 0.05
    15 0.0000 1.0000 0.0000
    16 0.0000 1.0000 0.0000
    17 0.0000 1.0000 0.0000 0
    18 0.0000 1.0000 0.0000 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
    19 0.0000 1.0000 0.0000 x
    20 0.0000 1.0000 0.0000
    21 0.0000 1.0000 0.0000

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