Law of Large Numbers

The mathematics of uncertainty

Flip a fair coin ten times and you might get 7 heads. Flip it ten thousand times and the fraction of heads will hug 0.5 astonishingly closely. That's the law of large numbers: as you collect more data, the sample mean converges to the true expectation.

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