Biostats Night School Preview: The Central Limit Theorem

It's almost like magic, but it isn't. It's just math. And that's where the magic is.

One of the hardest concepts for me to understand in statistics (and biostatistics) is the Central Limit Theorem. At its core, the CLT states that the distribution of sample means from a population will be normally distributed (bell curve shaped) regardless of the shape of the distribution in the population. Now, I’ve seen videos and heard different prof…