 Fano factor (source code)

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= Fano factor
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For a nonnegative count with positive mean, the Fano factor compares its <variance> to its mean. A <Poisson distribution> has factor one. Correlated production bursts or weak restoring feedback can give factors larger than one even at large molecular copy number.

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