law of large numbers

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noun Mathematics.

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.

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Origin of law of large numbers

First recorded in 1935–40

Words nearby law of large numbers

law of heart, law of identity, law of independent assortment, law of inertia, law of inverse square, law of large numbers, law of mass action, Law of Moses, law of motion, law of multiple proportion, law of nations

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He that seeketh the law, shall be filled with it: and he that dealeth deceitfully, shall meet with a stumblingblock therein.
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To Harrison and his wife there was no distinction between the executive and judicial branches of the law.
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Mr. Jones swung round a large iron key he held in his hand, and light dawned upon him.
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Sometimes in the case of large plants, cones have been known to occur on the tips of the branches of the Marsh Horsetail.
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British Dictionary definitions for law of large numbers

law of large numbers

noun

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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Medical definitions for law of large numbers

law of large numbers

The rule or theorem that a large number of items chosen at random from a population will, on the average, have the characteristics of the population.Bernoulli's law

Scientific definitions for law of large numbers

law of large numbers

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. Also called Bernoulli's law