Re: what type of distribution on this sampling

[Dennis Roberts]

At 12:47 PM 9/21/01 -0400, Joe Galenko wrote:

>The mean of a random sample of size 81 from a population of size 1 billion
>is going to be Normally distributed regardless of the distribution of the
>overall population (i.e., the 1 billion).

i don't think so .. check out the central limit theorem

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