Asked by Fahad Hashmi on Jun 12, 2024
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The number x of people entering the intensive care unit at a particular hospital on any one day has a Poisson probability distribution with mean equal to four persons per day.
What is the probability that the number of people entering the intensive care unit on a particular day is two?
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What is the probability that the number of people entering the intensive care unit on a particular day is Less than or equal to two?
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Is it likely that x will exceed ten?
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Explain.
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Poisson Probability Distribution
A discrete frequency distribution that expresses the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space.
Intensive Care Unit
A specialized department in a hospital that provides critical care to seriously ill patients.
- Ascertain the probabilities inherent in Poisson distributions.
- Compute expected values and standard deviations for specific distributions.
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KJ
Kisha JeantyJun 12, 2024
Final Answer :
0.146525; 0.238103; No; The value x = 10 lies 3.0 standard deviations above the mean.
Learning Objectives
- Ascertain the probabilities inherent in Poisson distributions.
- Compute expected values and standard deviations for specific distributions.
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