There's something that feels different about that. You're talking about the rate of some event occurring (like a Poisson process), and measuring how many occurr

There's something that feels different about that. You're talking about the rate of some event occurring (like a Poisson process), and measuring how many occurrences are in an interval (a year). What are the 6 samples you are collecting? 6 years of numbers of earthquakes in a year? Edit: sorry I thought you were replying to another comment.