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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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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Estimating a population mean from a sample obtained with unknown selection probabilities is important in the biomedical and social sciences.

Visualization methods enhance our understanding of sample data and help us make comparisons across samples. Box plots are a simple but powerful graphing tool that can be used in place of histograms to ...