Category
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Pareto principle
statistical principle about ratio of effects to causes
Zipf's law
probability distribution
Benford's law
observation about the frequency distribution of leading digits in many real-life sets of numerical data
long tail
theory in economics
power law
functional relationship between two quantities, where one quantity varies as a power of another
law of total probability
formula expressing the probability of an event in terms of its conditional probabilities over a partition of the sample space
regression toward the mean
statistical phenomenon
Bradford's law
pattern that estimates the exponentially diminishing returns of extending a search for references in science journals
law of total expectation
iterated expectation
Lotka's law
application of Zipf's law to publications by field

Gompertz–Makeham law of mortality
mathematical equation related to human death rate
Law of truly large numbers
law of truly large numbers is of statistics, with a large enough number of samples, any outrageous thing is likely to be observed
Littlewood's law
law that states a person can expect to experience events with odds of one in a million at the rate of about one per month.
Hellin's law
Heaps' law
heuristic for distinct words in a document
rank-size distribution
distribution of size by rank
Neural scaling law
Law in machine learning
law of total variance
theorem
safety in numbers
group protection theory