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I want to understand the Poisson and exponential distributions correctly. Would this be correct "If $X$ follows a Poisson distribution, then $T$ measures the probability that you have to wait $t_a$ time periods until $X \geq 1$"?

(Where $X \geq 1$ is the same things as saying "$X$ has occurred", for example "the component is dead.")

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    Strongly related: [Exponential distribution from Poisson](http://math.stackexchange.com/q/18894/77033)2014-03-11

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