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    Graduate Mean of Poisson Dist, given mode

    Ok... Thanks. Not sure if I understand this, or how to proceed... Perhaps I will put up my attempt at a solution soon, that might help. Thanks!
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    Graduate Mean of Poisson Dist, given mode

    Suppose a person takes data (say counts per minute of cars going past his window), for a long time. Then he loses his data, but knows that he counted 5 cars more often than any other number. What is the likely range for the average count rate? I tried to solve this by saying the mode is 5, so...