The Connection Between the Exponential Distribution and the Poisson Process

The exponential distribution quantifies the probability of the time to the next even in a Poisson process. For example, the time to the next email (although getting an email is no longer a rare event!)

This video was produced at the University of Washington, and we acknowledge funding support from the Boeing Company

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00:00 Intro
00:50 Defining our Exponential Event Series
04:20 Events Over an Interval is a Poisson Process
06:10 Example: Time to Next Email
07:49 Example: N Emails in t Minutes
09:55 Outro