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lambdas

The parameter for the Poisson distribution, the expected number of events in the time interval of interest

## Specification

Alias: none

Argument(s): REALLIST

## Description

The density function for the poisson distribution is given by:

where is the frequency of events happening, and `x` is the number of events that occur.