The Central Limit Theorem - understanding what it is and why it works

The Central Limit theorem underpins much of traditional inference. In this video Dr Nic explains what it entails, and gives an example using dragons. 0:00 Introduction 0:30 Background 0:40 Sampling Distribution of the mean 1:15 Overview of four aspects 1:50 Dragon example 3:00 Samples of n=4 3:55 Aspect 1 - spread is smaller 4:15 Aspect 2 4:50 Aspect 3 5:26 Aspect 4 - sample size effect 6:10 Important notes There is a really helpful blogpost here also: https://creativemaths.net/blog/sampli... See https://creativemaths.net/videos/ for all of Dr Nic's videos organised by topic. You can buy Dragonistics data cards at our shop at: https://shop.creativemaths.net/produc... #Statistics #Probability #DrNicStats