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The Central Limit Theorem

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The law of large numbers states that the arithmetic mean of independent, identically distributed random variables converges to the expected value. One interpretation of the central limit theorem is as a (distributional) rate result.

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Gut, A. (2012). The Central Limit Theorem. In: Probability: A Graduate Course. Springer Texts in Statistics, vol 75. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4708-5_7

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