Central Limit Theorem

Terms from Statistics for HCI: Making Sense of Quantitative Data

A mathematical result, which says that the average (arithmetic mean) of lots of items or the sum of lots of very small things behaves more and more like a Normal distribution as the number of small items gets larger.

Also used in hcistats2e: Chap. 4: pages 46, 51, 58

Used in glossary entries: mean (μ), Normal distribution