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Background Modules for ChE473K Process Design and Operations at the University of Texas at Austin Gerald G. McGlamery, Jr., Ph.D., P.E. |
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A Useful Result of the Central Limit Theorem In stochastic modeling, the central limit theorem will drive output variables toward normal distributions. Said another way, the sum of a large number of random variables will be normally distributed regardless of the distributions of the individual random variables. This corollary is illustrated below:
Measurements of macro phenomena tend to be normally distributed because they are the sum of many micro distrubutions. |
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