Bernoulli's law


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Ber·noul·li's law

 (bər-no͞o′lēz)
n.
See law of averages.
[After Jakob Bernoulli.]
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Noun1.Bernoulli's law - (statistics) law stating that a large number of items taken at random from a population will (on the average) have the population statistics
law of large numbers
law of nature, law - a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics"
statistics - a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters
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