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  • https://stats.libretexts.org/Courses/Cerritos_College/Introduction_to_Statistics_with_R/08%3A_Estimating_Unknown_Quantities_from_a_Sample/8.02%3A_The_Law_of_Large_Numbers
    When applied to the sample mean, what the law of large numbers states is that as the sample gets larger, the sample mean tends to get closer to the true population mean. For any particular data set, t...When applied to the sample mean, what the law of large numbers states is that as the sample gets larger, the sample mean tends to get closer to the true population mean. For any particular data set, the sample statistics that we calculate from it will be wrong, but the law of large numbers tells us that if we keep collecting more data those sample statistics will tend to get closer and closer to the true population parameters.
  • https://stats.libretexts.org/Workbench/Learning_Statistics_with_SPSS_-_A_Tutorial_for_Psychology_Students_and_Other_Beginners/07%3A_Estimating_Unknown_Quantities_from_a_Sample/7.02%3A_The_Law_of_Large_Numbers
    When applied to the sample mean, what the law of large numbers states is that as the sample gets larger, the sample mean tends to get closer to the true population mean. For any particular data set, t...When applied to the sample mean, what the law of large numbers states is that as the sample gets larger, the sample mean tends to get closer to the true population mean. For any particular data set, the sample statistics that we calculate from it will be wrong, but the law of large numbers tells us that if we keep collecting more data those sample statistics will tend to get closer and closer to the true population parameters.
  • https://stats.libretexts.org/Courses/Taft_College/PSYC_2200%3A_Elementary_Statistics_for_Behavioral_and_Social_Sciences_(Oja)/01%3A_Description/04%3A_Distributions/4.04%3A_The_Law_of_Large_Numbers
    How numbers work...
  • https://stats.libretexts.org/Workbench/PSYC_2200%3A_Elementary_Statistics_for_Behavioral_and_Social_Science_(Oja)_WITHOUT_UNITS/04%3A_Distributions/4.04%3A_The_Law_of_Large_Numbers
    How numbers work...

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