{"id":8780,"date":"2019-05-22T16:11:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/poisson_distribution\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:11:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:26","slug":"poisson_distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/poisson_distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Poisson distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Named after&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/wsp\/resources\/tales\/poisson.html\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/wsp\/resources\/tales\/poisson.html?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sim\u00e9on-Denis Poisson&nbsp;<\/a>(1781-1840), it is a skewed probability distribution with a long tail representing the number of randomly occurring events with a constant mean rate in a specified time interval. &nbsp;Its most frequent use is to model the random occurrence of infrequent events that have a fixed probability of occurrence. &nbsp;It has also been used to model developmental changes in the temporal organisation of infant nutritive sucking and turn-taking during face-to-face interaction in older infants. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"isomorphism\">Isomorphism<\/a>, <a href=\"posterior_distribution\">Posterior distribution<\/a>, <a href=\"prior_distribution\">Prior distribution<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Named after&nbsp;Sim\u00e9on-Denis Poisson&nbsp;(1781-1840), it is a skewed probability distribution with a long tail representing the number of randomly occurring events with a constant mean rate in a specified time interval. &nbsp;Its most frequent use is to model the random occurrence of infrequent events that have a fixed probability of occurrence. &nbsp;It has also been used &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/poisson_distribution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poisson distribution&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}