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PoissonDistribution Class

Generates Poisson distributed random numbers.
Inheritance Hierarchy
SystemObject
  Altaxo.Calc.Probability.OldProbabilityDistribution
    Altaxo.Calc.Probability.OldPoissonDistribution

Namespace: Altaxo.Calc.Probability.Old
Assembly: AltaxoCore (in AltaxoCore.dll) Version: 4.8.3179.0 (4.8.3179.0)
Syntax
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public class PoissonDistribution : ProbabilityDistribution

The PoissonDistribution type exposes the following members.

Constructors
 NameDescription
Public methodPoissonDistribution(Double)Initializes a new instance of the PoissonDistribution class
Public methodPoissonDistribution(Double, RandomGenerator)Initializes a new instance of the PoissonDistribution class
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Properties
 NameDescription
Public propertyGeneratorReturns the random generator used by the distribution to generate the random values.
(Inherited from ProbabilityDistribution)
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Methods
 NameDescription
Public methodCDF(Double)
(Overrides ProbabilityDistributionCDF(Double))
Public methodStatic memberCDF(Double, Double) 
Public methodEqualsDetermines whether the specified object is equal to the current object.
(Inherited from Object)
Protected methodFinalizeAllows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection.
(Inherited from Object)
Public methodGetHashCodeServes as the default hash function.
(Inherited from Object)
Public methodGetTypeGets the Type of the current instance.
(Inherited from Object)
Protected methodInitialize 
Protected methodMemberwiseCloneCreates a shallow copy of the current Object.
(Inherited from Object)
Public methodNextDouble
(Overrides ProbabilityDistributionNextDouble)
Public methodPDF(Double)
(Overrides ProbabilityDistributionPDF(Double))
Public methodStatic memberPDF(Double, Double) 
Public methodQuantile
(Overrides ProbabilityDistributionQuantile(Double))
Public methodToStringReturns a string that represents the current object.
(Inherited from Object)
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Fields
 NameDescription
Protected fieldalm 
Protected fieldg 
Protected fieldgeneratorPointer to generator.
(Inherited from ProbabilityDistribution)
Protected fieldm 
Protected fieldscale 
Protected fieldscalepi 
Protected fieldsq 
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Remarks
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Returns a Poisson distributed deviate (integer returned in a double)
from a distribution of mean m.
The Poisson distribution gives the probability of a certain integer
number m of unit rate Poisson random events occurring in a given
interval of time x.
                                  j  -x
             j+eps               x  e
     integral       p (m) dm  = -------
             j-eps   x            j !

References: The method follows the outlines of:
W. H. Press, B. P. Flannery, S. A. Teukolsky, W. T. Vetterling,
Numerical Recipies in C, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1988.
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