law of large numbers
law of large numbers
Definition of LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS
: a theorem in mathematical statistics: the probability that the absolute value of the difference between the mean of a population sample and the mean of the population from which it is drawn is greater than an arbitrarily small amount approaches zero as the size of the sample approaches infinity
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1911
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