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Classic central limit Thm (Second Fundamental probabilistic):

"The distribution of the average of a large number of samples from a distribution tends to be normal"

let X1,X2,...,Xn be n independent and identically distributed variables (i.i.d) with finite mean $ \mu $ and finite variance $ \sigma^2>0 $.Then as n increases the distribution of $ \Sigma_{i=1}^n \frac{X_i} {n} $ approaches $ N(\mu,\frac {\sigma^2}{n}) $.

More precisely the random variable $ Z_n = \frac{\Sigma_{i=1}^n X_i - n \mu}{\sigma \sqrt{n}} $ has $ P(Z_n)\longrightarrow N(0,1) $ when $ n \longrightarrow \infty $

More generalization of central limit Thm.

let X1,X2,...,Xn be n independent variables

Xi has mean $ \mu_i $ & finite variance $ \sigma^2 > 0 $ ,i=1,2,...,n

Then $ Z_n = \frac{\Sigma_{i=1}^n X_i - \Sigma_{i=1}^n \mu_i} {\sqrt{\Sigma_{i=1}^n \sigma^2}} $ has $ P(Z_n)\longrightarrow N(\mu ,\Sigma) $ when $ n \longrightarrow \infty $

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