Central Limit Theorem: A sampling distribution of the mean is approximately normally distributed if the sample size is sufficiently large. This is true no matter what the population distribution is.

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In statistics, a population refers to the entire group of individuals or items that we are interested in studying. However, collecting data from the whole population is often impractical due to size, ...