10.36A study examining bomb hits in South London during World War II is documented in

the following table from the book A Handbook of Small Data Sets (Hand et al., 1993, p. 232).

The bomb hits were recorded in the 576 grids in a map of a region in South London. The study

contended that certain areas were less likely to be hit with a bomb because of certain geographical

features. If the bomb hits were purely random, a Poisson model would produce the number

of hits per grid.

Number of bomb hits 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Total Number of grids 229 211 93 35 0 0 1 576