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law of large numbers
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.
Origin:
1935–40
1935–40
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Law of large numbers
is always a great word to know.
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| the third power of a quantity such as a cubed = a?a?a |
| a number or quantity placed before and multiplying another quantity, such as 3 in the expression 3x |
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| law of large numbers | |
| —n | |
| 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 Dictionary
law of large numbers n.
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. Also called Bernoulli's law.
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Science Dictionary
| 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. |
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law of large numbers
in statistics, the theorem that, as the number of identically distributed, randomly generated variables increases, their sample mean (average) approaches their theoretical mean.
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