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Professeur Poisson still rules

Submitted by david on Thu, 20/01/2011 - 12:04pm

We've previously shown that the number of homicides each day in London followed a Poisson distribution to a remarkable degree - this means that they essentially occur as a random process. Now the same analysis has been repeated by the Home Office in the crime statistics released today - and the Poisson fits very well.