LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

(statistics) law stating that a large number of items taken at random from a population will (on the average) have the population statistics

Synonyms:

Bernoulli's law; law of large numbers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("law of large numbers" is a kind of...):

law; law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

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