Poisson distribution

A discrete distribution with the differential mass-distribution function of the form:

$f w x = x a + 1 = e − a a x − 1 ( x − 1 ) !$

where $x$ is a parameter characterizing the chain length, such as relative molecular mass or degree of polymerization and $a$ is a positive adjustable parameter.

Source:

Purple Book, p. 56

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IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997). XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic, J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.

Last update: 2014-02-24; version: 2.3.3.

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