TU Wien:Statistik und Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie UE (Levajkovic)/Übungen 2023W/HW03.2

Telemarketing phone calls

On average, a household receives 6.5 telemarketing phone calls per week. Using the Poisson probability distribution, find the probability that a randomly selected household receives

(a) exactly two

(b) not more than five telemarketing phone calls during a given week.

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a)

avg <- 6.5
# probability of  receiving exactly 2: P(X = 2)
dpois(2, avg)

b)

# probability of receiving not more than 5: P(X <= 5)
ppois(5, avg)