Ber·noul·li's law

(bər-no͞o′lēz)

[After Jakob Bernoulli.]

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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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While Bernoulli's law applies to airflow and air pressures in the glottis, the direction-dependence must be provided by conditions not describable by Bernoulli's law alone.

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* Bernoulli's Limit Theorem in Modern Formulation: (For any given small positive integer and any given large positive number c, N (total number of observations) may be stated so that by simple algebra the modern formulation is: (Thus, given any > o and any c, N can be specified so that Bernoulli's law is proved.

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