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Re:The Central Limit Theorem and Its Misuse by clircle on Monday December 30, 2019 @03:51PM (#21916604)
Distributions are only assumed. There is no such thing as truly normal data or sampling distribution.
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Re:The Central Limit Theorem and Its Misuse by paulddraper on Monday December 30, 2019 @05:20PM (#21917174)
Sure, though that's a bit like saying there aren't any perfect squares only things you assume are squares.
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Re:The Central Limit Theorem and Its Misuse by clircle on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @02:53PM (#21924151)
There is a difference. Distributions are tested in practice, for example, by using a goodness-of-fit test. Often if the hypothesis of normality is not rejected, people think this implies normality.
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