Statistical Applets: Law of Large Numbers
This applet is designed to help students understand the Law of Large Numbers by simulating rolling dice. The applet graphs the mean of the sum of the rolls for user specified conditions. This...
Law of Large Numbers (Chapter 8)
Part of an online statistics textbook. Topics include: (1) Law of Large Numbers for Discrete Random Variables, (2) Chebyshev Inequality, (3) Law of Averages, (4) Law of Large Numbers for Continuous...
Quote: Cooper on The Law of Large Numbers
"Oh, well, this would be one of those circumstances that people unfamiliar with the law of large numbers would call a coincidence." is a quote spoken by Sheldon Cooper (2007 - ) a character on the...
Law of Large Numbers-Hospital
This activity discusses probability topics, such as: sample space, independent events, Law of Large Numbers, deviation percentage. A Excel program is required for this activity, which can be reached...
Law of Large Numbers
The controls on this applet let you change the number of trials, the probability of success in each trial, and toggle between viewing either the difference between the number of successes and the...
Belief in the Law of Small Numbers
This journal article gives examples of erroneous beliefs about probability. It specifically examines the belief that a random sample must be representative of the true population.
Quote: Mauldin on the Law of Averages
"I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages." A quote of soldier and U.S. cartoonist William H. Mauldin (1921 - 2003) from a cartoon caption in the first published collection of his work, Up...
Quote: Wright on the Law of Averages
"While nothing is more uncertain than the duration of a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives." A quote of American actuary and abolitionist Elizur...
Spinning Wheel
This activity uses a computer program to explore probability concepts such as sample space, independent events, law of large numbers, and reliability. An outline of the activity and the computer...