Donald Burrill wrote:
>
> As several respondents have pointed out, the relevant distribution is
> Poisson; in which case, if one has the mean, one has the standard
> deviation also.
A previous respondent adds:
Of course, in the real world a really good researcher studying this
question would consider possible "burstiness" of the requests - do they
arrive in clusters (due to relay methods or one user making multiple
requests) or uniformly spaced (due to other hypothetical features ofthe
relay methods)?
In a homework question the Poisson model can be glorked from the
context.
-Robert Dawson
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