limiting case of the binomial is poisson distribution

limiting case of the binomial is poisson distribution

If in a binomial distribution B(n ,p) , n is large and p is small and np is finite,then
the binomial distribution can be approximated using the Poisson distribution with mean =np.

The deriviation and proof is available at the following link
limiting case of the binomial distribution is poisson


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