- [[Load Testing]] [[Data science]] [[Statistics]] [[Requires Research]] - Date Created: [[2020-09-26]] - "The [Poisson distribution]([[Poisson Probability Distribution]]) is a probability distribution that describes how likely it is for a certain event to happen __k__ times given that it happened $\lambda$ (__lambda__) times within an interval." - When $\lambda$ is very large, the Poisson distribution approaches a normal distribution. - Questions to research: - In what cases is a poisson distribution better than a normal distribution?