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> They probably intend to discuss the Poisson distribution which is commonly used to characterize random customer inter-arrival times Wouldn't that be the expo
by soVeryTired 7y ago
> They probably intend to discuss the Poisson distribution which is commonly used to characterize random customer inter-arrival times
Wouldn't that be the exponential distribution? The poisson distribution would tell you how many customers would arrive in any given time interval.
- moandcompany 7y agoArrival processes are often characterized using Poisson distributions Service processes are often characterized using exponential distributions Some wikipedia rabbit holes to dive down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queueing_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queueing_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendall%27s_notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendall%27s_notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_network