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The Central Limit Theorem - understanding what it is and why it works

Dr Nic's Maths and Stats 234,976 7 years ago
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The Central Limit theorem underpins much of traditional inference. In this video Dr Nic explains what it entails, and gives an example using dragons. 0:00 Introduction 0:30 Background 0:40 Sampling Distribution of the mean 1:15 Overview of four aspects 1:50 Dragon example 3:00 Samples of n=4 3:55 Aspect 1 - spread is smaller 4:15 Aspect 2 4:50 Aspect 3 5:26 Aspect 4 - sample size effect 6:10 Important notes There is a really helpful blogpost here also: https://creativemaths.net/blog/sampling-distribution/ See https://creativemaths.net/videos/ for all of Dr Nic's videos organised by topic. You can buy Dragonistics data cards at our shop at: https://shop.creativemaths.net/products/dragon-cards-240 #Statistics #Probability #DrNicStats

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