Re: what type of distribution on this sampling

[Gus Gassmann]

Joe Galenko wrote:

> Just out of curiousity, I'd like to know what kind of population you could
> have such that a sample mean with N = 200 wouldn't be approximately
> Normally distributed.  That would have to be a very, very strange
> distribution indeed.

You can construct them easily as Bernoulli distributions where p is sufficiently
close to 0 or 1. For any N, there exists a p so that the distribution of the
sample mean is noticeably non-normal. Continuous distributions are a bit
harder to describe, but you can use simple perturbations of this idea.

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