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Comment author: BT_Uytya 31 July 2013 06:58:40AM 4 points [-]

Law of Large Numbers states that sum of a large amount of i.i.d variables approaches its mathematical expectation. Roughly speaking, "big samples reliably reveal properties of population".

It doesn't state that "everything can happen in large samples".

Comment author: Kawoomba 31 July 2013 08:15:25AM 1 point [-]

Thanks. Memory is more fragile than thought, wrong folder. Updated.

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