Question

When dealing with the number of occurrences of an event over a specified interval of time or space and when the occurrence or nonoccurrence in any interval is independent of the occurrence or nonoccurrence in any other interval, the appropriate probability distribution is a _____ .
(A) binomial distribution.
(B) hyper geometric probability distribution.
(C) normal distribution.
(D) Poisson distribution.

Answer 1

Answer:

(D) Poisson distribution.

Step-by-step explanation:

When dealing with the number of occurrences of an event over a specified interval of time or space and when the occurrence or non occurrence in any interval is independent of the occurrence or non occurrence in any other interval, the appropriate probability distribution is a _ Poisson distribution.

This distribution is used to calculate the probability of different number of success based on the mean number of success.