noun
See law of averages.
law of large numbers
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The rule or theorem that the average of a large number of independent measurements of a random quantity tends toward the theoretical average of that quantity. Also called Bernoulli's law
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Noun
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- (statistics) The statistical tendency toward a fixed ratio in the results when an experiment is repeated a large number of times; law of averages.
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