Poisson distribution

Etymology
After French mathematician (1781-1840), who introduced the distribution in his 1837 work Recherches sur la probabilité des jugements en matière criminelle et en matière civile ("Research on the Probability of Judgements in Criminal and Civil Matters"), although prior work had been done by.

Noun

 * 1)  Any of a class of discrete probability distributions that express the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed time interval, where the events occur independently and at a constant average rate; describable as a limit case of either binomial or negative binomial distributions.

Translations

 * Czech: Poissonovo rozdělení
 * Galician: distribución de Poisson
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: distribuzione di Poisson
 * Japanese: ポアソン分布
 * Romanian: distribuție Poisson
 * Swedish: Poissonfördelning