Re: what type of distribution on this sampling

[Robert J. MacG. Dawson]

> 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.
and Gus Gassmann responded:
> You can construct them easily as Bernoulli distributions where p is sufficiently
> close to 0 or 1.

        A more concrete example: lottery ticket payouts. A batch of 200 lottery
tickets still has a payout distribution heavily influenced by small
proportions of very unlikely events (jackpots).

        -Robert Dawson


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