Reading
Read Section 2.5, pages 107–111.
The important notions are:
- Poisson Random Variables
- Poisson Random Variables as limits of Bernoulli Random Variables
- Expectation of a Poisson Random Variable
- Variance of a Poisson Random Variable
Video
The following video examines the Poisson distribution using Exercise 81.
Exercises
If you want some practice, try these representative exercises: 75, 80, 82, and 86.