The bootstrap can be used to assess uncertainty of sample estimates. We have previously discussed the importance of estimating uncertainty in our measurements and incorporating it into data analysis 1 ...

Central Limit Theorem: A sampling distribution of the mean is approximately normally distributed if the sample size is sufficiently large. This is true no matter what the population distribution is.

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