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Central limit theorem
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Sep 16, 2026
Ted PavlicHOST
And what did we say last time is the theorem that explains this? The, the distribution of sums.
Ted PavlicHOST
Central limit theorem.
Ted PavlicHOST
So central limit theorem says that...
Ted PavlicHOST
And so this is really important for modeling additive wear.
Ted PavlicHOST
So if you were to pull up these carpet squares, um, because this is America, we, we typically have padding underneath here.
Ted PavlicHOST
It is very unlikely for all of them to walk at the extremes.
Ted PavlicHOST
And so because of that, where is it more likely that they're gonna get the additive pattern? It's in the center.
Ted PavlicHOST
So additive wear tends to look like bell curves for the centr- And that's basically the, the, the reason the central limit theorem works, is that when you're adding these things together, it's rare for independent contributions to be extreme simultaneously.
Peter BoydHOST
All of the statistical techniques rely on these fundamental results.
Peter BoydHOST
The first one is what's called the central limit theorem.
Peter BoydHOST
And what this says is that under certain conditions, the sum of lots of random variables has a normal distribution.
Peter BoydHOST
So you start with some coin or some dice.
Peter BoydHOST
So here's a case where the law of large numbers is violated.
Peter BoydHOST
And so fundamentally, We assume in most analysis and statistics that those two things are correct.
Peter BoydHOST
We can use the central limit theorem.
Peter BoydHOST
We assume that if we have a large enough sample, our estimates will converge to the actual value of the sample.