The number of syntactic errors found in a program code would best be described using a Poisson probability distribution.

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The Poisson distribution is commonly used to model the number of occurrences of an event over a fixed interval of time or space, when the events are rare and independently occurring. In the case of program code, the occurrence of a syntactic error can be considered rare (compared to the number of correct syntax elements) and independent of any other error occurrence. Therefore, the number of syntactic errors in a program code can be well-modeled using a Poisson distribution.

The Number of Syntactic Errors Found in a Program Code