LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does law of large numbers mean? 

• LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS (noun)
  The noun LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS used as a noun is very rare.

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• LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

Bernoulli's law; law of large numbers

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)