Round 9: Tossup 3

Mark Robinson showed gene expression data deviates from this distribution, which is accounted for using a different distribution in the DESeq2 (“D-E-seek-two”) package. The deviation of photon occupation number from this distribution is caused by antibunching. This distribution is the distribution of survivors in the null hypothesis of the Luria–Delbruck experiment. (10[1])This distribution gives the molecular weight distribution produced by living polymerization. Both shot noise and the number of radioactive decay events from a slowly decaying (10[1])source obey this distribution, which is followed (10[1])by the event count of independent events with a constant (10[1])mean rate. A single (10[1])parameter lambda (10[1])specifies both mean and variance in, for 10 points, what probability distribution named for a Frenchman? (10[2])■END■

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