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2009 Oct 27
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Detection Times and Poisson Distribution
...m given a set of data corresponding to list of detection times (real, non-integer numbers in general) for some events, let us say nuclear decays to fix the ideas. It is a small dataset, corresponding to about 400 nuclear decay times. I would like to test the hypothesis that these decay times are Poissonian-distributed. What is the best day of dealing with the data? Should I consider the cumulative number of detections vs time, the time intervals between two consecutive detections vs time or something else? Many thanks Lorenzo