“large numbers”

We have one entry that includes the term large numbers.

law of large numbers

noun phrase

: 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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