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The Poisson distribution

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Choosing a discrete model Poisson as a limit of binomial Single-server queues The Poisson distribution Chebyshev's inequality Conditional expectation Conditional probability Covariance Expectation for a continuous variable Expected value of a function of X (LOTUS) Expected value: the long-run average interpretation Gambler's ruin Games of chance and expected winnings Linearity of expectation Probability vocabulary for ML: Bayes' theorem,… Standard deviation and units Surprise and entropy The Bernoulli distribution The binomial distribution The computational formula for variance The discrete uniform distribution The exponential distribution The geometric distribution The hypergeometric distribution The negative binomial distribution The sampling distribution of a variance, previewed Expected value Variance, defined Counting permutations combinations

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