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Subject: Re: A problem in probability : ref needed.
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Date: Wed, 7-Dec-83 08:48:25 EST
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Reference:
Poisson, Simeon Denis (1837).  Recherches sur la Probabilite des Jugements
	en Matiere Criminelle et en Matiere Civile, Precedees des Regles
	Generales du Calcul des Probabilities.  Bachelier, Imprimeur-Libraire
	pour les Mathematiques, la Physique, etc. Paris.

No distribution is given, but the mean and variance are calculated.  A more
modern reference for this is:

Johnson, Norman L. and Samuel Kotz (1969).  Distributions in Statistics:
	Discrete Distributions.  Wiley, New York.  (They also have volumes
	on Continuous Univariate Distributions and Multivariate Distributions).

--Ted H. Emigh/Depts of Genetics and Statistics/NCSU
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