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Re:The Central Limit Theorem and Its Misuse by amelius on Monday December 30, 2019 @09:01AM (#21913351)
Ok, but the real pdf is cut off at 1 and 6, while the normal distribution extends to +- infinity and can never model the cutoffs, no matter how large N is (though of course those tails get less significant).
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Re:The Central Limit Theorem and Its Misuse by throwlaplace on Monday December 30, 2019 @11:26AM (#21914419)
like the other comment points out, the measured rv is shifted and scaled. re tails: there's a sqrt(n) that scales the measured distribution so that it in the limit it has tails at +/- infinity.
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