Poisson process

A stochastic process in which events occur continually and independently of one another.

Noun

  1. A stochastic process in which events occur continually and independently of one another.
    • These properties are readily apparent when one considers that the Poisson process is derived from the binomial processes, which, as seen in Section 6.1, can be viewed in terms of coin tosses. - 1995, Randolph Nelson,...
    • 2012, Peter Guttorp, Thordis L. Thorarinsdottir, Chapter 4: Bayesian Inference for Non-Markovian Point Processes, Emilio Porcu, José–María Montero, Martin Schlather (editors), Advances and Challenges in Space-time...
    • University buses arrive at the Students Center to take students to their classes according to a Poisson process with an average rate of 5 buses per hour. - 2014, Oliver Ibe, Fundamentals of Applied Probability and...

Origin

From the related concept of Poisson distribution (specifying a bounded subset of the domain of a Poisson process defines a random variable that has a Poisson distribution). See also stochastic process.

Forms

Poisson processes

Synonyms

Poisson point field Poisson point process Poisson random measure Poisson random point field

Related

carrier space