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The surprising thing about the CLT is that it applies whenever the means and variances of the summed random variables exist. This is really a very mild conditio
by pmiller2 9y ago
The surprising thing about the CLT is that it applies whenever the means and variances of the summed random variables exist. This is really a very mild condition, but the surprise to me is that the result is independent of the actual distributions of the variables being summed!
- pishpash 9y agoThe convergence rates are different though, so at finite sample sizes and as a practical matter, it does matter.