What is Central Limit Theorem? (statistics...)

[Walleye]

f-ing hell, i cant find my textbook (getting burned on points bad there.)

I cant remember what the central limit theorem is. anyone know?

this shouldnt take long, if someone here takes stats...

pleez...

 

[minendo]

CLT

 

[MichaelD]

Um...all points revolve around one central point of inescapable pull?

No...that's gravity. Sorry, can't help. *leaves*

 

[floccus]

The incarnation of Evil in math form...

Beyond that, I cant really remeber... I guess all that conseling to help clear the scars of that class worked

 

[udonoogen]

http://www.rand.org/methodology/stat/applets/clt.html
Demonstrates the Central Limit Theorem using a simulated quincunx. (Author: David Krider, UCLA)

http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~vlachos/CLT.html
Demonstrates the Central Limit Theorem by simulated dice rolling. (Author: Todd Ogden, Univ. S. Carolina)

http://www.gams.com/~erwin/cenlim/cenlim.html#userguide
Demonstrates the Central Limit Theorem by repeated sampling from an arbitrary distribution that you can define. (Author: Erwin Kalvelagen, GAMS Development Corp.)

CLT - basically the distribution gets more normal as you increase your sample size. i think. =) im taking psych stats now and its kicking my arse. stats is ghey.

 

[Hector13]

CLT - basically the distribution gets more normal as you increase your sample size. i think. =) im taking psych stats now and its kicking my arse. stats is ghey.

Maybe stats for L&S majors is "ghey", but try taking a real stat class and see how you feel about it
It's easy when everything is "i.i.d" or normally distributed and you can you z or t tests, but that doesn't happen in the real world.