Detecting Product Defects with Probability

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Hi there!

I’ve just finished this assignment and starting to check my code with the solution. And have some questions.

  1. Seems like here is a typo in solution code of Task 5:
    Create a variable called year_defects that has 365 random values from the Poisson distribution.
### Task Group 2 ###
## Task 5:
year_defects = stats.poisson.rvs(lam, size = 356)
  1. Task 11. Calculate and print the probability of observing that maximum value or more from the Poisson(7) distribution

Why in the solution here is no subtract 1 from stats.poisson.cdf(year_defects.max() while in hint and in theory before there were explanation that if we want to find ‘value or more’ we should to include the maximum value in our probability?

## Task 11:
1 - stats.poisson.cdf(year_defects.max(), lam)
  1. What is the difference between use year_defects.mean() and np.mean(year_defects)? And also all other functions like year_defects.max() vs. max(year_defects)?

Thank you!

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Not an answer, as such, but does the above match your intentions?

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I’m sorry, I think I don’t understand your question =/

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Should the size be 365?

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statistically - possibly not =) but task says that there should be 365 random values

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Which is why I question `size = 356’. Is that a typo?

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yes, because it does not fulfill the conditions of the task

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I haven’t done this lesson, and I’m not familiar with that probability distribution or the project.

But, to answer your 3rd question, they’re the same thing: you’re using the same statistical method to get the mean of that array/column year_defects except that one is Pandas and the other is numPy (and the number of parameters each accepts are different).
See the docs here:
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.Series.mean.html

https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.mean.html

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