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  2. Law of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    Borel's law of large numbers, named after Émile Borel, states that if an experiment is repeated a large number of times, independently under identical conditions, then the proportion of times that any specified event is expected to occur approximately equals the probability of the event's occurrence on any particular trial; the larger the ...

  3. Benford's law - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 January 2025. Observation that in many real-life datasets, the leading digit is likely to be small For the unrelated adage, see Benford's law of controversy. The distribution of first digits, according to Benford's law. Each bar represents a digit, and the height of the bar is the percentage of ...

  4. Littlewood's law - Wikipedia

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    Littlewood’s law of miracles states that in the course of any normal person’s life, miracles happen at a rate of roughly one per month. The proof of the law is simple. During the time that we are awake and actively engaged in living our lives, roughly for 8 hours each day, we see and hear things happening at a rate of about one per second.

  5. Probability - Wikipedia

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    Law of total probability; Law of large numbers; ... Subjectivists assign numbers per subjective probability, ... (1856) formula [clarification needed] for r, ...

  6. Law of truly large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The law of truly large numbers (a statistical adage), attributed to Persi Diaconis and Frederick Mosteller, states that with a large enough number of independent samples, any highly implausible (i.e. unlikely in any single sample, but with constant probability strictly greater than 0 in any sample) result is likely to be observed. [1]

  7. Gambling mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The mathematics of gambling is a collection of probability applications encountered in games of chance and can get included in game theory.From a mathematical point of view, the games of chance are experiments generating various types of aleatory events, and it is possible to calculate by using the properties of probability on a finite space of possibilities.

  8. Law of averages - Wikipedia

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    The law of averages is the commonly held belief that a particular outcome or event will, over certain periods of time, occur at a frequency that is similar to its probability. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Depending on context or application it can be considered a valid common-sense observation or a misunderstanding of probability.

  9. Empirical statistical laws - Wikipedia

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    Law of large numbers; Law of truly large numbers; Central limit theorem; Regression toward the mean; Examples of "laws" with a weaker foundation include: Safety in numbers; Benford's law; Examples of "laws" which are more general observations than having a theoretical background: Rank–size distribution