An insurance company has a policy which insures a house against fire. The records of one particular period of 30 days yielded the following results. C. Number of claims No of days 1 2 3 4 5 or more 8 11 4 1 i. Fit a Poisson distribution to this data. ii. Calculate the expected frequencies for this Poisson distribution.

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An insurance company has a policy which insures a house against fire. The records of
one particular period of 30 days yielded the following results.
C.
Number of claims
1
2
3
4
5 or more
No of days
8
11
4
1
i.
Fit a Poisson distribution to this data.
ii. Calculate the expected frequencies for this Poisson distribution.
Transcribed Image Text:An insurance company has a policy which insures a house against fire. The records of one particular period of 30 days yielded the following results. C. Number of claims 1 2 3 4 5 or more No of days 8 11 4 1 i. Fit a Poisson distribution to this data. ii. Calculate the expected frequencies for this Poisson distribution.
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