The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

Animator Shuyi Chiou and the folks at CreatureCast give an adorable introduction to the central limit theorem – an important concept in probability theory that can reveal normal distributions (i.e.

What Is the Central Limit Theorem? The Central Limit Theorem (CLT) states that if you sample a data population enough times, then the means and standard deviations of the samples will approach a ...

It is shown that a method recently developed by Bolthausen permits an extension (up to a logarithmic factor) of an estimate of the rate of convergence in the martingale central limit theorem due to ...