Standardized mean difference Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
This gives a dimensionless effect size, so mean differences can be compared across measurement scales.
Hydrogen-only Saha equation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
When , , and
Moving-boundary lubrication flux Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The flux of the local Couette-Poiseuille profile is
Couette-Poiseuille flow with a stress-free stationary wall Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For , , and constant , zero shear at requires
The velocity becomes , the flux per unit width is , and the fluid exerts shear on the moving upper wall.
beta plane Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-07
A beta plane retains the leading meridional variation of the Coriolis parameter.
f-plane Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
An f-plane approximates the Coriolis parameter by a constant over a limited horizontal region.
Dual sequence of a Schauder basis Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The dual sequence consists of the coordinate functionals in . It is always a basic sequence, though it need not span the entire dual space.
Even--odd fast Fourier transform recursion Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For and length- transforms of the even and odd samples,
Gamma density from repeated exponential convolution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For , induction in the convolution integral gives
Its Fourier transform in the angular-frequency convention is .
Ratio test Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For nonzero terms, if
then converges absolutely. If the ratio has a limit greater than one, the terms do not tend to zero and the series diverges.
Limit comparison test Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-28
For positive terms, if the ratio of two sequences tends to a finite positive number, their series either both converge or both diverge.
Absorption of a finite-dimensional summand by c0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The map proves , equivalently .
Monotone bounded sequence Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
An increasing real sequence converges exactly when it is bounded above. For a bounded sequence, its limit is the supremum of its set of terms.
Geometric mean of a sequence Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For a positive sequence converging to , its cumulative geometric means converge to the same limit.
Cesàro mean Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The Cesàro mean of the first terms of a sequence is their arithmetic mean. It is a cumulative average: increasing includes the whole initial segment, rather than a fixed-length sliding window. For , the even-length averages are zero and the odd-length averages are , so they tend to zero even though the sequence does not converge.
For a periodic sequence with period and one-cycle arithmetic mean , split an initial segment into full cycles and a remainder of fewer than terms. The full cycles contribute exactly per term; the remainder contributes a fixed bounded error divided by . Thus the Cesàro means tend to . The cycle in the bounded partial sums need not be Cesàro summable illustration has arithmetic mean one. Treating it as a sequence of partial sums gives a series with first-order Cesàro sum one; averaging a sequence and summing its terms remain different operations.
Independent rare-event counterexample to almost-sure convergence Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Independent indicators with success probabilities converge to zero in probability, but successes occur infinitely often almost surely by the second Borel--Cantelli lemma.
Almost-sure subsequence from convergence in probability Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
From in probability, choose with
. The first Borel--Cantelli lemma then gives almost surely.
Bounded-metric characterization of convergence in probability Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Convergence in probability is equivalent to
The forward implication splits at a fixed error threshold; the reverse implication is Markov's inequality.
Uniqueness of a limit in probability Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If converges in probability to both and , then almost surely. Indeed, the triangle inequality and a union bound show that for every .
Weak law of large numbers Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Let be real independent and identically distributed random variables with and expected value . The weak law of large numbers states that their sample mean has convergence in probability to : for every fixed ,
Thus a large sample is unlikely to give an average with a specified fixed-size error. The strong law of large numbers makes the stronger statement of almost sure convergence along an entire sequence. Under the displayed assumptions both laws apply; their names distinguish the conclusions, not two competing predictions.
When the variance is finite, variance additivity for independent random variables gives . The Chebyshev inequality immediately supplies a useful quantitative form and a brief proof:
For independent trials with a Bernoulli distribution of parameter , the expected value is and the variance is . At , the chance of an error of at least is therefore at most . The exact binomial distribution gives a much smaller probability, as the figure under the strong law of large numbers shows. The bound is conservative, but it is valid for every sample size under these assumptions and does not require a normal approximation.
The weak law of large numbers addresses a fixed tolerance . The central limit theorem instead resolves errors on the shrinking scale and gives their approximate normal distribution. In particular, the weak law of large numbers alone supplies neither a bell-shaped error law nor a universal rate of approach. For example, a Pareto distribution with minimum one and shape has expected value three but infinite variance: both the weak law of large numbers and strong law of large numbers apply, while the finite-variance statement of the central limit theorem does not.

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