 Age of a Poisson process (source code)

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= Age of a Poisson process

With $J_0=0$, the age $A(t)=t-J_{N_t}$ of a rate-$\lambda$ Poisson process has mean
$$
\mathbb EA(t)=\frac{1-e^{-\lambda t}}{\lambda}.
$$
Given $N_t=n$, the last arrival is the maximum of $n$ uniform points and $\mathbb E[A(t)\mid N_t=n]=t/(n+1)$, including $n=0$.

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