Central Limit Theorem

Statistics & Probability Lindeberg–Lévy, Lyapunov Cite
Primary: Laplace, Lyapunov, Lindeberg, Lévy
Publication: Central limit theorem
Year: 18th–20th c.
URL: Wikipedia

Sample means converge in distribution to normal. Lindeberg–Lévy (i.i.d.), Lyapunov (non-identically distributed). Foundation for asymptotic inference.

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Frontier: High-dimensional CLT, Stein's method, rate of convergence (quantitative CLT). math.PR