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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