function bindemo x=0:6; n=5; bar(x, binopdf(x,n,1/n),'r' ) title('Poisson Approximation to Binomial Distributions') xlabel('x') ylabel('Probability of x ') gtext(['red. Bin, n= ' num2str(n) ' p= ' num2str(1/n)]) hold on n=2*n; bar(x, binopdf(x,n,1/n),'g') gtext(['green. Bin, n= ' num2str(n) ' p= ' num2str(1/n)]) n=2*n; bar(x, binopdf(x,n,1/n),'b') gtext(['blue. Bin, n= ' num2str(n) ' p= ' num2str(1/n)]) n=2*n; bar(x, binopdf(x,n,1/n),'y') gtext(['yellow. Bin, n= ' num2str(n) ' p= ' num2str(1/n)]) bar(x, poisspdf(x,1),'w') gtext(['white. Poisson 1 ']) hold off figure n=5; stairs(x, binocdf(x,n,1/n) ) title('Cumulative Distribution Functions') gtext([' Bin, n= ' num2str(n) ' p= ' num2str(1/n)]) hold on n=2*n; stairs(x, binocdf(x,n,1/n)) gtext([' Bin, n= ' num2str(n) ' p= ' num2str(1/n)]) n=2*n; stairs(x, binocdf(x,n,1/n)) gtext([' Bin, n= ' num2str(n) ' p= ' num2str(1/n)]) n=2*n; stairs(x, binocdf(x,n,1/n)) gtext([' Bin, n= ' num2str(n) ' p= ' num2str(1/n)]) stairs(x, poisscdf(x,1)) gtext([' Poisson 1 ']) hold off