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Normal Approximation to Poisson Distribution: Interactive Resource   COURSE_COMMUNITIES_JAVA_ID


Course Topic(s): Probability | Convergence Theorems, central limit theorem | Discrete Distribution, Poisson

Users can set \(\lambda\) and \(n\) and observe how the distribution changes. The Poisson distribution is shown in blue and the Normal approximation is overlaid in red.

Resource URL: http://www.socr.ucla.edu/Applets.dir/NormalApprox2PoissonApplet.html


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Subject classification(s): Univariate Distributions | Probability | Statistics and Probability

Creator(s): Ivo Dinov

Contributor(s): Ivo Dinov

This resource was cataloged by Diane Fisher

Publisher:
UCLA

Resource copyright: Ivo Dinov

This review was published on September 20, 2012

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