Tag: poisson

Interview Questions

• Nuclear chain reaction, Poisson offspring
• Which lightbulb burns out first?
• When does the fifth call arrive?
• Poisson emails in the inbox
• Poisson hits on a website
• Poisson defects along a wire
• Thinning a Poisson order flow
• Poisson buses at the stop
• Splitting an email stream into spam and real
• Given three buses came, when did the first arrive?
• The chance of a quiet fifteen minutes
• Which alarm rings next?
• Are trade arrivals Poisson? Goodness of fit with an estimated rate
• Cramer-Rao bound for a Poisson rate
• Why the square root stabilizes Poisson counts
• MLE for a Poisson rate
• How many events per minute? MLE for a Poisson rate
• Merging two Poisson streams