R. D. Clarke

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An illustration of a flying bomb is shown above a table comparing actual and predicted numbers of London districts with different counts of bomb hits, illustrating the Poisson distribution.

R. D. Clarke

British statistician

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Poisson distribution
…in 1946 the British statistician R.D. Clarke published “An Application of the Poisson Distribution,” in which he disclosed his analysis of the distribution of hits of flying bombs (V-1 and V-2 missiles) in London during World War II. Some areas were hit more often than others. The British military wished…
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…in 1946 the British statistician R.D. Clarke published “An Application of the Poisson Distribution,” in which he disclosed his analysis of the distribution of hits of flying bombs (V-1 and V-2 missiles) in London during World War II. Some areas were hit more often than others. The British military wished…
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