DISCUS Workbooks and Associated Workcards
The Poisson Distribution
© Neville Hunt and Sidney Tyrrell 1995
School of MIS, Coventry University, CV1 5FB, UK
The spreadsheet shown introduces this workbook with a simulation of a supermarket queue at a checkout. Students can change any of the values in
blue to investigate what happens.
![[Example of worksheet]](./pois.gif)
Queuing simulation
Other spreadsheets investigate the shape of the distribution for different
values of the mean rate, visually compare up to three Poisson distributions
and finally compare the Binomial and Poisson distributions.
The Workbook POIS.XLS contains:
- Queuing simulation
- Poisson distributions for small values of lambda
- Comparing Poisson distributions
- Comparing Binomial and Poisson distributions
The accompanying Workcard is available in POIS.DOC.
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Neville Hunt
Page updated on: 1 April 1999
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