poisson¶
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astropy.uncertainty.
poisson
(center, n_samples, cls=<class 'astropy.uncertainty.core.Distribution'>, **kwargs)[source]¶ Create a Poisson distribution.
- Parameters
- center
Quantity
The center value of this distribution (i.e., λ).
- n_samplesint
The number of Monte Carlo samples to use with this distribution
- clsclass
The class to use to create this distribution. Typically a
Distribution
subclass.- Remaining keywords are passed into the constructor of the ``cls``
- center
- Returns
- distr
cls
, usuallyDistribution
The sampled poisson distribution.
- distr