Lab / Experiment 175
Central limit theorem
Take samples from any distribution, compute their mean, and repeat thousands of times. Regardless of the original shape — uniform, exponential, bimodal, anything you draw — the distribution of means converges to a bell curve. The most important theorem in statistics, animated.
Source distribution
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Distribution of sample means (n = 5)
Source distribution
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Samples drawn
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Mean
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Std dev
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Skewness
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Kurtosis
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Theory σ/√N
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