law of large numbers

Definitions of law of large numbers
  1. noun
    (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
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    type of:
    law, law of nature
    a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
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