Description

Overview:

This resource consists of a Java applet and expository text. The applet simulates the time of the k'th arrival in a Poisson process. The arrival number k and the rate of the Poisson process can be varied. The applet illustrates the gamma distribution and a special case of the central limit theorem.

Subject:

Statistics and Probability

Level:

High School, Community College / Lower Division, College / Upper Division

Material Type:

Activity/Lab, Simulation

Author:

Kyle Siegrist

Provider:

University of Alabama in Huntsville

Provider Set:

Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics

Date Added:

02/01/2006