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The Central Limit Theorem is a statistical concept applied to large data distributions. It says that as you randomly sample data from a distribution, the means and standard deviations of the samples ...

The Scripps data and sample policy follows the approach of the National Science Foundation described in publication NSF 24-124: Division of Ocean Sciences Sample and ...

Monte Carlo importance sampling for evaluating numerical integration is discussed. We consider a parametric family of sampling distributions and propose the use of the sampling distribution estimated ...