Demonstrating the Central Limit Theorem

Authors: 
Johnson, D. E.
Type: 
Journal Article
Category: 
Teaching
Volume: 
13(3)
Pages: 
155-156
Year: 
1986
Publisher: 
Teaching of Psychology
Abstract: 

Explaining abstract, theoretical distributions to beginning students is sometimes difficult. This article describes a demonstration that helps to make the central limit theorem for generating sampling distributions concrete and understandable.

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