Central Limit Theorem

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Seonglae ChoSeonglae Cho
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2023 Mar 9 1:10
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CLT

The phenomenon where the sum of independent random variables approaches a
Normal distribution
Under certain conditions, the distribution of sample means of a sufficiently large sample size drawn from any distribution with a finite mean and variance will tend to a normal distribution, regardless of the shape of the original distribution
If you take repeated samples of size n from a population with a mean μ and a standard deviation σ, and calculate the mean of each sample, then the distribution of these means will be approximately normal with a mean of μ and a standard deviation of σ/√n, as n becomes larger

Sample Mean

Condition

Basically requires
iid
from any distribution with limited average and variance. However Lyapunov condition or Lindeberg condition with different variance satisfies CLT.

Confidence interval

 
 
 
 
 
 

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