hi victor,
have you looked at a proof of the central limit theorem? it is remarkable
BECAUSE intuition may lead you to think otherwise...
i'm sure you can easily get your hands on one, even on the web...
anna
On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 [email protected] wrote:
> Thanks,but that is why I am concerned about my inability to get its
> intuition.It seems contradictory to me,that an inherently negatively or
> positively skewed population distribution,could be normalised,by enlarging the
> sample size.If anything,that should retrace the skewness and not normalize the
> skewness.
> Victor
>
>
> Quoting David Greenberg <[email protected]>:
>
> > This topic is discussed in virtually every introductory statistics
> > textbook. David Greenberg, Sociology Department, New York University.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: [email protected]
> > Date: Sunday, July 21, 2002 1:33 pm
> > Subject: st: Re: normal distributions
> >
> > > Dear subscribers,
> > > can anyone help me understand how is it that for types of
> > > population
> > > distributions that are non-normal the sampling distribution of
> > > Xbar is
> > > approximately normal for sufficiently large samples.
> > > Thanks Victor Michael Zammit
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