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I can't see any possible reason for the distribution to be Poisson. It should be completely random, but the representation on the map is too regular.. Looks l
by empiricus 11y ago
I can't see any possible reason for the distribution to be Poisson.
It should be completely random, but the representation on the map is too regular..
Looks like the apparent regularity is an artifact of the way the data is filtered for display on the map for some scales; if I zoom out/in the fully random distribution becomes more visible.
- bweitzman 11y agoPoisson distributions are completely random, so I'm guessing you mean either a uniform or normal distribution. failrate is making a reference to the Thomas Pynchon novel "Gravity's Rainbow", in which the Poisson distribution of the bombing of London is a major plot point. And I do believe the author is correct by claiming it is a Poisson distribution, since we are talking a number of events per km^2.
- empiricus 11y agoThanks, I see now. I was thinking that Poisson distributions look like distributions generated by Poisson disk sampling (with which I was more familiar).