Central limit theorem

GPTKB entity

Statements (28)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf statistical theorem
gptkbp:applies_when sample size is sufficiently large
gptkbp:appliesTo identically distributed variables
independent random variables
gptkbp:category probability theorems
statistical theorems
gptkbp:compatibleWith normality of original distribution
gptkbp:describes distribution of sample means
gptkbp:field gptkb:probability_theory
statistics
gptkbp:first_formulated_by gptkb:Abraham_de_Moivre
gptkbp:further_developed_by gptkb:Carl_Friedrich_Gauss
gptkb:Pierre-Simon_Laplace
gptkb:Aleksandr_Lyapunov
gptkbp:generalizes gptkb:Lindeberg–Feller_theorem
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Central limit theorem
gptkbp:implies sample mean approximates normal distribution as sample size increases
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:normal_distribution
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Berry–Esseen_theorem
gptkb:law_of_large_numbers
gptkbp:requires finite variance
gptkbp:state sum of a large number of independent random variables tends toward a normal distribution
gptkbp:used_in hypothesis testing
inferential statistics
confidence intervals
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Crash_Course_Statistics
gptkb:Standard_normal_distribution
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7