MAT330/681 LECTURE 12 (3/15/2021): POISSON RANDOM VARIABLES
• Announcements: Please remember that HW6 is due Wednesday, as usual. The next class, Lecture 13, will be conducted live on Wednesday starting at 11:00am. See you there (on Zoom)!
• Video 1: A quick recap from Calculus: Download file or watch below
• Video 2: Poisson random variables: Download file or watch below
• Video 3: Problem involving a Poisson random variable: Download file or watch below
• Video 4: When to use a Poisson distribution: Download file or watch below
By the way, you can play with the parameter $\lambda$ of a Poisson distribution and see how it affects the shape of the probability mass function here.
• Video 5: Using a Poisson random variable to approximate a Binomial random variable with large $n$: Download file or watch below