law of large numbers

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsBernoulli's law

   Broaderlaw

   statistics

Questions about law of large numbers

What does law of large numbers mean?

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

What is another word for law of large numbers?

Close synonyms include Bernoulli's law. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is law of large numbers a common word?

law of large numbers is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.