Class PoissonProcess

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    RandomProcess<Poisson>

    public final class PoissonProcess
    extends SingleValueBasedProcess<Poisson>
    A Poisson process is a stochastic process which counts the number of events in a given time interval. The time between each pair of consecutive events has an exponential distribution with parameter λ and each of these inter-arrival times is assumed to be independent of other inter-arrival times. The process is a good model of radioactive decay, telephone calls and requests for a particular document on a web server, among many other phenomena.