POISSON PROCESS
In probability theory, a Poisson process is a stochastic process which counts the number of events and the time that these events occur in a given time interval. The time between each pair of consecutive events has an exponential distribution with parameter λ and each of these inter-arrival times is assumed to be independent of other inter-arrival times.
In probability theory, a Poisson process is a stochastic process which counts the number of events and the time that these events occur in a given time interval. The time between each pair of consecutive events has an exponential distribution with parameter λ and each of these inter-arrival times is assumed to be independent of other inter-arrival times.
The basic form of Poisson process,
often referred to simply as "the Poisson process", is a
continuous-time counting process {N(t),
t ≥ 0} that possesses the following properties:
- N(0) = 0
- Independent increments (the numbers of occurrences counted in disjoint intervals are independent from each other)
- Stationary increments (the probability distribution of the number of occurrences counted in any time interval only depends on the length of the interval)
- No counted occurrences are simultaneous.
Consequences of this definition
include:
- The probability distribution of N(t) is a Poisson distribution.
- The probability distribution of the waiting time until the next occurrence is an exponential distribution.
- The occurrences are distributed uniformly on any interval of time. (Note that N(t), the total number of occurrences, has a Poisson distribution over (0, t], whereas the location of an individual occurrence on t ∈ (a, b] is uniform.)
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