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this is the only derivation that makes any sense to me (assuming you already understand the poisson distribution): https://neurophysics.ucsd.edu/courses/physics_171/exponential.pdf | this is the only derivation that makes any sense to me (assuming you already understand the poisson distribution): https://neurophysics.ucsd.edu/courses/physics_171/exponential.pdf | ||
this post has a similar derivation, but it is sloppier: http://www.clayford.net/statistics/deriving-the-exponential-distribution/ (e.g. it doesn't do <math>f(w) = \lambda e^{-\lambda w}</math>) | |||
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this is the only derivation that makes any sense to me (assuming you already understand the poisson distribution): https://neurophysics.ucsd.edu/courses/physics_171/exponential.pdf
this post has a similar derivation, but it is sloppier: http://www.clayford.net/statistics/deriving-the-exponential-distribution/ (e.g. it doesn't do )
