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Which of the following correctly describes a Poisson random variable?
 a. It does not generate a binomial either/or outcome because only a single type of outcome or event is occurring during the Poisson process.
  b. It is not confined to a fixed number of trials, because its value can equal any discrete integer between zero and infinity, along a continuum of time or space.
  c. It equals the number of occurrences of a specified event within a specified time or space.
  d. All of these.
  e. None of these.

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A term confidence level refers to an estimate of a population parameter, expressed as a range of values within which the unknown but true parameter presumably lies.
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false



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