The Central Limit Theorem Is Important in Statistics Because

question 26

Multiple Choice

The Central Limit Theorem is important in statistics because

• A)for a large n,it says the population is approximately normal.
• B)for any population,it says the sampling distribution of the sample mean is approximately normal,regardless of the sample size.
• C)for a large n,it says the sampling distribution of the sample mean is approximately normal,regardless of the shape of the population.
• D)for any sized sample,it says the sampling distribution of the sample mean is approximately normal.

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