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Poisson model
We can use Poisson distribution to model the sampling of tags, as the selection of a particular tag can be regarded as a random event with a small probability.
The first reaction was that Poison was another misspelling (like Elizabeth Arden's Millenium) and should have been Poisson; but, on reflection, the salability of a scent promising the smell of fish seems a little remote.
One reason for using the Poisson approximation is that it is much easier to work with this distribution than the hypergeometric when adjusting for space by day-of-week interaction (see below), as the sum of Poisson distributions is still a Poisson distribution.
noyer le poisson, Lit. to drown the fish: to side-step the question or to introduce a red herring