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Because it looks like one (compared to Gaussian it's skewed): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distributi
by bd 18y ago
Because it looks like one (compared to Gaussian it's skewed):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution
- omarish 18y agoIt looks a bit like one, but it could be any group of others. Poisson distributions would be used normally in a circumstance that resembles an arrival process (say hits to a web server), but not for a distribution like ages on a site like this.