Central Limit Theorem: A sampling distribution of the mean is approximately normally distributed if the sample size is sufficiently large. This is true no matter what the population distribution is.

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1 Department of Studies in Statistics, University of Mysore, Mysore, India. 2 All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore, India. In many studies where sampling is used, such as environmental ...

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