HyperDic: law_of_large_numbers

English > 1 sense of the expression law of large numbers:
NOUNcognitionlaw of large numbers, Bernoulli's law(statistics) law stating that a large number of items taken at random from a population will (on the average) have the population statistics
English > law of large numbers: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition
Meaning(statistics) law stating that a large number of items taken at random from a population will (on the average) have the population statistics.
SynonymBernoulli's law
CategorystatisticsA branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters
Broaderlaw, law of natureA generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
Catalanllei dels grans nombres

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