[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am simulating an event where users come into the pool randomly > starting at time T=0, i.e. For Example, 2 users came at T= 0 into the > the pool, 3 users came at T= 1 into the the pool, 5 users came at T=2 > ,..........,54 users came at T=45 etc. As cumulative number of users > goes above 1024, we stop the process. > > I want to mimic such kind of distribution using poison traffic ( a bell > shaped curve). I looked into wikipedia and some other tutorials but I > wasn't sure how many parameter does the above kind of distribution > would require. > > Could somebody put some light on this issue. > > PS:: This is not exactly a programming issue but since I was using it > in one of the Python programs, I thought somebody might have used > similar thing in past and could help. Thanks. >
The Poisson has one parameter, its mean. See e.g. http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/eda366j.htm Duncan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
