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To: FredZarguna
Correct, and clustering within the Poisson distribution is well known. It's why, for example, in a locker room three random dripping wet guys all wind up within a few feet of each other with no one else in the room.

I think the guys in the locker room have far more control over where they stand than the shooter had over whether his rounds hit an individual target. I don't think its reasonable to model it as a random distribution of any kind, but to look for other causes as to why they are close together.

110 posted on 10/05/2017 3:27:30 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: AndyTheBear
Subject to the assumption that they don't know each other and arrive randomly, it's Poisson.

If they know each other, something else altogether is going on.

119 posted on 10/05/2017 5:09:41 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come 'round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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