A systematic sample of 100 pages was taken from a Concise Oxford Dictionary and the observed frequency distribution of foreign words per page was found to be the following : 1 2 4 6. No. of foreign words per page : Frequency: 48 27 12 7 4 1 1 Fit a Poisson distribution. Also compute the variance of the fitted distribution.

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A systematic sample of 100 pages was taken from a Concise Oxford Dictionary
and the observed frequency distribution of foreign words per page was found to be the following :
1
3
4
6.
No. of foreign words per page :
Frequency:
48
27
12
7
4
1
1
Fit a Poisson distribution. Also compute the variance of the fitted distribution.
Transcribed Image Text:A systematic sample of 100 pages was taken from a Concise Oxford Dictionary and the observed frequency distribution of foreign words per page was found to be the following : 1 3 4 6. No. of foreign words per page : Frequency: 48 27 12 7 4 1 1 Fit a Poisson distribution. Also compute the variance of the fitted distribution.
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