Poisson Distribution Model

APS Excellence in Physics Education Award
November 2019

Science SPORE Prize
November 2011

The Open Source Physics Project is supported by NSF DUE-0442581.

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Poisson Distribution Model

written by Francisco Esquembre

The Poisson Distribution Model shows how to use the Apache Commons Math library (included in EJS) to generate random numbers that follow the Poisson distribution. A histogram of the numbers is displayed. This simple teaching example illustrates the use of the Histogram view element and how to speed up a simulation by running the model several time before updating the view.

Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.6 of Java (JRE).

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Last Modified: June 11, 2014
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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Mathematical Tools - Probability - Statistics	- Upper Undergraduate - Graduate/Professional - Lower Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Simulation

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Access Rights:: Free access
License:: This material is released under a GNU General Public License Version 3 license.
Rights Holder:: Francisco Esquembre
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created February 11, 2013 by Francisco Esquembre
Record Updated:: June 11, 2014 by Andreu Glasmann

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