Law of small numbers

Law of small numbers may refer to:

• The Law of Small Numbers, a book by Ladislaus Bortkiewicz
  • Poisson distribution, the use of that name for this distribution originated in the book The Law of Small Numbers
• Hasty generalization, a logical fallacy also known as the law of small numbers
  • The tendency for an initial segment of data to show some bias that drops out later, one example in number theory being Kummer's conjecture on cubic Gauss sums
• The strong law of small numbers, an observation made by the mathematician Richard K. Guy: "There aren't enough small numbers to meet the many demands made of them."

See also

• Law of large numbers, a theorem that describes results approaching their average probabilities as they increase in sample size. (Hasty generalization is the mistaken application of this law to small data sets.)
• Law of anomalous numbers (also called first-digit law and (Newcomb–)Benford law), an observation about the frequency distribution of leading digits in many real-life sets of numerical data.
• Pigeonhole principle, the occurrence of mathematical coincidences

1. Strong law of small numbers
2. Law of large numbers
3. Law of truly large numbers
4. Benford's law
5. Gambling mathematics
6. Poisson distribution
7. Stokes' law
8. Richard K. Guy
9. Pólya conjecture
10. Gambler's fallacy
11. Infinitesimal
12. Hot hand
13. Perfect number
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15. Representativeness heuristic
16. List of numbers
17. Mathematical coincidence
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19. Faulty generalization
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