A simple way to determine if it is NOT is to see if the mean (the single parameter of a poisson: lambda) and variance are the same.
This really has nothing to do with R (other than the data source), and since it is homework, you will likely get no further help here. Good luck. RToss wrote > > Hi! > > I am sitting with a school assignment, but I got stuck on this one. > I am suppose to test if my data is Poisson-distributed. > The data I´m using is the studie "Bids", found in the Ecdat-package, and > the variable of interest is the dependent "numbids". > How do I practically perform a test for this? > > Kind regards/ Richard > -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-test-for-Poisson-tp4147356p4147519.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
