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Law of Large Numbers


A "law of large numbers" is one of several theorems expressing the idea that as the number of trials of a random process increases, the percentage difference between the expected and actual values goes to zero.


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Strong Law of Large Numbers, Weak Law of Large Numbers Explore this topic in the MathWorld classroom

Portions of this entry contributed by John Renze

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Stark, P. B. "The Law of Large Numbers" http://stat-www.berkeley.edu/~stark/Java/lln.htm.

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Law of Large Numbers

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Renze, John and Weisstein, Eric W. "Law of Large Numbers." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/LawofLargeNumbers.html

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