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law of large numbers

noun

, Mathematics.
  1. the theorem in probability theory that the number of successes increases as the number of experiments increases and approximates the probability times the number of experiments for a large number of experiments.


law of large numbers

noun

  1. the fundamental statistical result that the average of a sequence of n identically distributed independent random variables tends to their common mean as n tends to infinity, whence the frequency of the occurrence of an event in n independent repetitions of an experiment tends to its probability
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law of large numbers

  1. The rule or theorem that the average of a large number of independent measurements of a random quantity tends toward the theoretical average of that quantity.
  2. Also called Bernoulli's law


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Word History and Origins

Origin of law of large numbers1

First recorded in 1935–40

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