Type:
Volume:
32(3)
Pages:
Online
Year:
2010
Publisher:
Teaching Statistics
URL:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9639.2009.00386.x/abstract
Abstract:
W.A. Wallis studied vacancies in the US Supreme Court over a 96-year period (1837-1932) and found that the distribution of the number of vacancies per year could be characterized by a Poisson model. This note updates this classic study.
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