A systematic sample of 100 passes was taken from the concise Oxford  Dictionary and the observed frequency distribution of foreign words per page  was found to be as follows: page (x) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Frequency 48 27 12 7 4 1 1 Calculate the expected frequencies using Poisson distribution. Also calculate  the  Variance of fitted distribution

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A systematic sample of 100 passes was taken from the concise Oxford 
Dictionary and the observed frequency distribution of foreign words per page 
was found to be as follows:
page (x) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Frequency 48 27 12 7 4 1 1
Calculate the expected frequencies using Poisson distribution. Also calculate 
the 
Variance of fitted distribution Ans.: 37, 37, 18, 16, 2, 0, 0
Variance = 0.99

 

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