The Reverse of The Law of Large Numbers
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arXiv0803.3913MaRDI QIDQ6208917FDOQ6208917
Authors: Kieran Kelly, Przemyslaw Repetowicz, Seosamh macRéamoinn 
Publication date: 27 March 2008
Abstract: The Law of Large Numbers tells us that as the sample size (N) is increased, the sample mean converges on the population mean, provided that the latter exists. In this paper, we investigate the opposite effect: keeping the sample size fixed while increasing the number of outcomes (M) available to a discrete random variable. We establish sufficient conditions for the variance of the sample mean to increase monotonically with the number of outcomes, such that the sample mean ``diverges from the population mean, acting like an ``reverse to the law of large numbers. These results, we believe, are relevant to many situations which require sampling of statistics of certain finite discrete random variables.
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