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Re: [Phys-l] probability problem



John would you please elaborate, perhaps by (an) example(s)?

bc surprised by the very few discussions of the Poisson time interval distribution in texts



On 2010, Jun 29, , at 10:33, John Denker wrote:


Tangential remark: People make the same mistake all the
time in connection with Poisson statistics. It is easy
to show that in the Poisson case, if you ignore the
bunching you're off by a factor of 2 exactly.