dist_poisson(lambda)

## Arguments

lambda vector of (non-negative) means.

## Details

Poisson distributions are frequently used to model counts.

We recommend reading this documentation on https://pkg.mitchelloharawild.com/distributional/, where the math will render nicely.

In the following, let $$X$$ be a Poisson random variable with parameter lambda = $$\lambda$$.

Support: $$\{0, 1, 2, 3, ...\}$$

Mean: $$\lambda$$

Variance: $$\lambda$$

Probability mass function (p.m.f):

$$P(X = k) = \frac{\lambda^k e^{-\lambda}}{k!}$$

Cumulative distribution function (c.d.f):

$$P(X \le k) = e^{-\lambda} \sum_{i = 0}^{\lfloor k \rfloor} \frac{\lambda^i}{i!}$$

Moment generating function (m.g.f):

$$E(e^{tX}) = e^{\lambda (e^t - 1)}$$

## Examples

dist <- dist_poisson(lambda = c(1, 4, 10))

dist
#> <distribution[3]>
#> [1] Pois(1)  Pois(4)  Pois(10)mean(dist)
#> [1]  1  4 10variance(dist)
#> [1]  1  4 10skewness(dist)
#> [1] 1.0000000 0.5000000 0.3162278kurtosis(dist)
#> [1] 1.00 0.25 0.10
generate(dist, 10)
#> [[1]]
#>  [1] 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
#>
#> [[2]]
#>  [1] 2 5 6 2 2 3 5 3 4 5
#>
#> [[3]]
#>  [1] 10  5  9 10 13 14 12  8 11 13
#>
density(dist, 2)
#> [1] 0.183939721 0.146525111 0.002269996density(dist, 2, log = TRUE)
#> [1] -1.693147 -1.920558 -6.087977
cdf(dist, 4)
#> [1] 0.99634015 0.62883694 0.02925269
quantile(dist, 0.7)
#> [1]  1  5 12