Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Rant423 405 days ago
An application of the Poisson distribution (1946)

https://garcialab.berkeley.edu/courses/papers/Clarke1946.pdf
1 comments
tatrajim 404 days ago
Famously used by Thomas Pynchon in Gravity's Rainbow. The notion of obtaining a distribution of random rocket attacks blew my young mind and prompted a life-long interest in the sturdy of statistics.
link