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Consider a coin labeled +1 on one side and -1 on the other side. A single coin toss is binary distributed with mean of 0. Toss the coin N times and let S be th
by Daniel_Newby 14y ago
Consider a coin labeled +1 on one side and -1 on the other side. A single coin toss is binary distributed with mean of 0.
Toss the coin N times and let S be the sum of the results. The individual tosses are binary distributed, but for larger N, S is approximately Gaussian distributed thanks to the central limit theorem.
- zerostar07 14y agoYes, but you re talking about the sum of the results, so the CLT is only relevant only to those programs that sum their input and nothing else.