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The waiting time to observe the occurrence of

events in a Poisson process with intensity

is a random variable that follows the Gamma distribution with parameters

and

(both of which must be positive). The red vertical segment marks the mean of the distribution.

Contributed by: Chris Boucher

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The Gamma Distribution