Modelled as poisson distributions include

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MINI CASE 10.2
Examples of events that can be modelled as Poisson distributions include:

? The number of deaths by horse kicking in the Prussian army (this was the first application and was made famous by a book of Ladislaus Josephovich Bortkiewicz (1868-1931));
? Birth defects and genetic mutations;
? Rare diseases (like Leukemia, but not AIDS because it is infectious and so not independent) - especially in legal cases;
? Car accidents;
? Traffic flow and ideal gap distance;
? The number of typing errors on a page;
? The number of hairs found in McDonald's hamburgers;
? Spread of an endangered animal in Africa;
? Failure of a machine in one month

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