Poissonian

1. not comparablemathematicsOf or pertaining to the Poisson distribution.

   We saw that the observation of Poissonian and super-Poissonian statistics could be explained by classical wave theory, but not sub-Poissonian statistics.

   2006, Mark Fox, Quantum Optics: An Introduction, page 105

plural Poissonians

1. A Poisson distribution.

   Analysis of the actual data is plotted as a solid line, the corresponding distribution made by superimposing Poissonians is shown as a dotted line, and the exponential decay with same mean interval as the solid line is shown as a dashed line.

   2013, Hideki Takayasu, Empirical Science of Financial Fluctuations: The Advent of Econophysics