1. (statistics) law stating that a large number of items taken at random from a population will (on the average) have the population statistics; [syn: Bernoulli's law, law of large numbers]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
law of large numbers
n 1: (statistics) law stating that a large number of items taken
at random from a population will (on the average) have the
population statistics [syn: Bernoulli's law, law of
large numbers]