The number of flying bomb hits on London during World War II
in a 36 square kilometre area of South London.
The area was gridded into 0.25 km squares and the number of bombs falling
in each grid was counted.
If the hits are random,
a Poisson distribution should fit the data.
Variables:
Hits
The number of hits
Frequency
The frequency of the given number of hits in 0.25km squares.
Data Quality:
There are no missing values.
Source:
Hand et al. dataset 289.
Notes:
A Poisson distribution fits the data well.
References:
Original reference is
Clarke, RD (1946).
An application of the Poisson distribution.
Journal of the Institute Actuaries,
72, 48.