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Q125Section III (Statistics)125 of 180

Matching means — Binomial is always less dispersed than Poisson

Assume that X∼B(n,p)X\sim B(n,p) for some n≥1n\ge1 and 0<p<10<p<1 and Y∼Poisson⁡(λ)Y\sim\operatorname{Poisson}(\lambda) for some λ>0\lambda>0. Suppose E(X)=E(Y)E(X)=E(Y). Then:

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