The Poisson experiment is characterized as follows:

• number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space.
• those events happen with a known average rate; and
• those events are independent of the time since the last event.

Based on the above characteristics,

• Think of a Poisson experiment example from your own area of interest.
• Describe how the selected experiment meets all the characteristics of a Poisson experiment.
• The Poisson distribution may also be used to approximate the binomial distribution. Explain this relationship with an example.