Answered By: Statistical Consulting
Last Updated: May 18, 2017     Views: 5

With a sample size of at least 30, the distribution of sample means will be approximately normally distributed regardless of the shape of the population with a mean of  and a standard deviation of  (standard error of the mean). This is known as the Central Limit Theorem.

If σ is unknown, we estimate it using s.

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