It seems that someplace in my statistical education I read or heard one
of my teachers make the following statement: When the occurrence of rare
events follows a Poisson process, then a characteristic of this process
is as follows: Usually there are long periods of time between the
events occurring, but occasionally the event may happen several times in
a relatively short period of time.
Can anyone provide a reference to this???
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