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  • čas přidán 27. 12. 2012
  • I discuss the central limit theorem, a very important concept in the world of statistics. I illustrate the concept by sampling from two different distributions, and for both distributions plot the sampling distribution of the sample mean for various sample sizes. I also discuss why the central limit theorem is important in statistics, and work through a probability calculation. (For the most part this is a non-technical treatment, and simply illustrates the important implications of the central limit theorem.)
    For those using R, here is the R code to find the probability for the example in this video:
    Finding the (approximate) probability that the mean salary of 100 randomly selected employees exceeds $66,000:
    1-pnorm(66000,62000,32000/sqrt(100))
    [1] 0.1056498
    Or, standardizing:
    1-pnorm((66000-62000)/(32000/sqrt(100)))
    [1] 0.1056498
    1-pnorm(1.25)
    [1] 0.1056498

Komentáře • 471

  • @jbstatistics
    @jbstatistics  Před 11 lety +165

    I'm a statistics professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Guelph.

  • @damiankonieczek5792
    @damiankonieczek5792 Před 7 lety +57

    My teacher has spent hours trying to teach us this. You did this in 13 minutes and 13 seconds.
    Great job and thank you:)

  • @yagayagaBabaYaga
    @yagayagaBabaYaga Před 3 lety +11

    Watching in 2020 for my stats diploma. Just realized this is an 8 year old video. Jeremy Balka, your channel is a gold mine. You are amazing! I will always remember you. Thanks!

  • @jbstatistics
    @jbstatistics  Před 11 lety +14

    Thanks for the feedback. I'm a little overly restrained in this one, and possibly a touch boring, but I felt that the original was a little over the top and irritating in some spots. I'm glad you liked the normal distribution video! Stats is definitely something to get excited about!

    • @thientranvinh832
      @thientranvinh832 Před měsícem +1

      thank professor! Your video makes me a big step to keep fire learn statistics!!!!

  • @ucheumolu4345
    @ucheumolu4345 Před 8 lety +19

    I never really comment on videos but this was so helpful It would be an insult to not thank you. So, THANK YOU! You have saved me

  • @jbstatistics
    @jbstatistics  Před 10 lety +4

    There are different formats of standard normal table. I have videos outlining how to use a standard normal table for two main types of standard normal table (one that gives the area to the left of the value of z, and the other that gives the area between 0 and a positive value of z).

  • @musclesmalone
    @musclesmalone Před 4 lety +2

    Extremely, extremely helpful. I'm going through a data science masters and I'm finding myself increasingly turning to youtube and getting a primer/intuition of a concept before listening to my actual lectures. This week is CLT and law of large numbers and after this video I'm in a lot better shape to assimilate the material. Thank you!

  • @senorfootball2460
    @senorfootball2460 Před 7 lety +30

    Very well explained, and good examples! I find examples are extremely important to learn stats, so this helped.

  • @aaronforester82
    @aaronforester82 Před 10 lety +96

    Best video on Central Limit Theorem. Do you have a virtual tip jar I can throw some virtual dollars in?

    • @jbstatistics
      @jbstatistics  Před 10 lety +93

      Thanks for the compliment. I'm just glad I can be of help. Cheers.

    • @Dennaton
      @Dennaton Před 4 lety +39

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      @regularviewer1682 Před 3 lety +1

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    • @sanchitakanta1018
      @sanchitakanta1018 Před 3 lety

      @@jbstatistics In the last example while we are calculating the probability of the average being greater than 1.25 sigma.
      The average is always in the middle of the normal distribution right?
      Z value =0.
      Then how can it be greater than 1.25 Sigma?
      Can you please explain.

    • @jbstatistics
      @jbstatistics  Před 3 lety +1

      @@sanchitakanta1018 You're mixing up the true (theoretical) mean, and the sample mean. The normal distribution is centred at the true mean. The question asks for a probability involving the sample mean.

  • @sammendimasa784
    @sammendimasa784 Před 7 lety +2

    Thank you so much for these videos. I am taking stat for engineers and I am literally teaching myself everything by watching your videos.

  • @mathhack8647
    @mathhack8647 Před 2 lety

    Woke up, checked this Vidéo before even have my coffee, I knew C.L.T longtime ago but now I go it much better. now I can explain it to my daughter in a btter bay . Thanks you .

  • @brunoassumpcao
    @brunoassumpcao Před 4 lety

    My former statistics professor (great dude) used to say that without central limit theorem, we wouldn't be here. I laughted then, I cried over my tests, then I eventually learned... and everything makes sense once we realize the awesomeness of this mathematical theorem. Now I do the same for my colleagues :)

  • @jbstatistics
    @jbstatistics  Před 11 lety

    When we draw a single sample, the sample mean will take on a single value. But if we were to draw a different sample, the sample mean would take on a different value. Before we draw our sample, we can think of the sample mean as a random variable with a probability distribution. The CLT tells us something about that probability distribution. You might want to watch my video "Sampling Distributions: Introduction to the Concept", which discusses this notion in greater detail. Cheers.

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    @samad.chouihat4222 Před 3 lety

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    @meraj786ful Před rokem

    Best Video explanation on CLT on the whole youtube. Thanks a lot

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      @jbstatistics  Před 7 lety

      I'm glad to hear that! Thanks so much for the compliment!

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    @parthbhatia2478 Před 4 měsíci

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  • @jbstatistics
    @jbstatistics  Před 11 lety +2

    You're welcome, and thanks for the compliment!

  • @gilgil5602
    @gilgil5602 Před 6 lety +6

    Very good video! It tells us why CLT is such important. I was wondering whether you could make another video explaining the CLT intuitively? Why the limiting distribution is normal instead of exponential, gamma, or any other distributions? What is the essence of the CLT?

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    @FHO72 Před 11 lety

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    @Zerpentile93 Před 11 lety +1

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  • @jbstatistics
    @jbstatistics  Před 11 lety

    Hi Karthik. It is the number of observations used to calculate the mean that is important. In practice we typically draw only a single sample. If that sample has 5000 observations, say, and our sample mean is thus the mean of 5000 observations, then the sampling distribution of the sample mean will be approximately normal in that situation.

  • @jbstatistics
    @jbstatistics  Před 11 lety

    Hi Vinayak. In its simplest form, the CLT applies to the mean of independent and identically distributed random variables. If we are sampling from a finite population, then if the sampling is done without replacement the observations are not independent. So to perfectly satisfy the conditions of the CLT, we'd need to be sampling with replacement. But if we are sampling only a small fraction of a large finite population, then there isn't much of a difference between with and without replacement.

  • @whutismyname
    @whutismyname Před 6 lety

    Definitely the best video on explaining CLT! Thank you!

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    @diencai1812 Před 4 lety

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  • @kulturenafish2449
    @kulturenafish2449 Před 7 lety

    i wish you could replace my professor. perfect explanation. i understood the concept just by watching it once. best video on central limit theorem on CZcams!

  • @jbstatistics
    @jbstatistics  Před 11 lety

    I just tried the video, and it plays all the way through for me. You're the first person to bring up a possible problem, so there's a good chance it's a problem on your end. Perhaps try it in a different browser, or after rebooting, or on another computer. I'd like to know if there's a problem, so let me know if you can't sort it out.
    How can you find more of my videos? You can search my channel, or look through the playlists. I don't have them organized on a website just yet.

  • @malugaoaprilrose3946
    @malugaoaprilrose3946 Před 4 lety

    Thank you so much for this video, especially the word problem that you gave. It helped me pinpoint the main idea of this topic. You are such a blessing for learners during this quarantine. Thank you very much.

  • @uclalse
    @uclalse Před 7 lety

    Best video this far on the CLT! I have watched around 10. This one did it.

    • @jbstatistics
      @jbstatistics  Před 7 lety

      I'm glad to be of help. Thanks for the compliment!

  • @PassengerT_
    @PassengerT_ Před 9 lety +5

    Really explicit explanation! good job!

    • @jbstatistics
      @jbstatistics  Před 9 lety +1

      +Weiji Hong Thanks!

    • @John-lf3xf
      @John-lf3xf Před 6 lety

      Weiji Hong I don't think you know what explicitly means

  • @jbstatistics
    @jbstatistics  Před 11 lety

    Thanks for the compliment! I'm glad you liked it, and I'm very glad to be of help!

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    @valeriereid2337 Před dnem

    Nice to have a Canadian Professor.

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    @doodelay Před 5 lety

    Oh boy, an animated channel dedicated only to non simplistic and organized statistics lessons. Thank you jesus

  • @JimbobFaz
    @JimbobFaz Před 5 lety +1

    This is all finally making sense! 😀 After many years of sort of getting this I understand it now so much better. So basically Xbar is a random variable all of it's own, with it's own mean and s.d ect, and varies depending on which sample we randomly pick from the population right? When I think about it like this it makes a lot more sense. Thanks for these brilliant videos.

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    @hashmarker4994 Před 3 lety

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  • @garthenar
    @garthenar Před 8 lety

    clear, concise and professional. perfect lecture.

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    @deepeshnair4375 Před 3 lety

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  • @grantx3026
    @grantx3026 Před 10 lety +1

    Crystal Clear now. GJ!

  • @jbstatistics
    @jbstatistics  Před 11 lety

    Hi Vinayak. The very last example involves the average salary of 100 employees. The distribution of individual salaries is probably not normal, but the central limit theorem tells us that the distribution of the mean salary of 100 employees will be approximately normal. That's what allows us to calculate an approximate probability based on the normal distribution. We're drawing a single sample, as we typically do, but it's a single sample of 100 employees.

  • @jbstatistics
    @jbstatistics  Před 11 lety

    You are very welcome, and I'm glad to be of help!

  • @biswajitnandi4304
    @biswajitnandi4304 Před 8 lety +2

    WOW ! nice explanation ! easy, understandable and well described !

  • @adhoc3018
    @adhoc3018 Před 3 lety +1

    Hey man, I've been watching some of your videos and they have really helped me to understand better statistics. In the past it seemed so difficult to me, but thanks to you I'm making good progress. I hope you are doing fine :)

  • @biobossx99
    @biobossx99 Před 9 lety

    Awesome explanation on WHY the CLT is important! >_

  • @elvinjafarli6257
    @elvinjafarli6257 Před 6 lety

    Great explanation, which means you know very well what you are teaching. Thanks!

  • @jbstatistics
    @jbstatistics  Před 11 lety

    You are very welcome Tobias! I hope your studies are going well!

  • @Emmzillla
    @Emmzillla Před 10 lety

    Great video! I mised the lecuture on CLT in math class due to jury duty. This video helped so much!

  • @dearcollynn3498
    @dearcollynn3498 Před 7 lety

    i finally get the idea of the central limit theorem.Thanks!!!!!

  • @jbstatistics
    @jbstatistics  Před 11 lety

    You're welcome Jessica! Yes, that's correct. There's no way to find that probability without more information.

  • @fisslimen
    @fisslimen Před 8 lety

    Great example! Helped me understand why CLT is used

  • @medicaltape
    @medicaltape Před 11 lety +1

    I like the original version of this video better because you seem so excited in it. It makes learning stats fun because it makes the subject seem so much more approachable and maybe not the train wreck you're expecting. I actually got excited about normal distribution! :)

  • @alvaromiro2931
    @alvaromiro2931 Před 6 lety

    Excellent!. I'm a Statistics teacher and I'm a fan of simulations as replacement of delirious formulae elaboration. There'll be time for that later....

  • @abhinavsharma1976
    @abhinavsharma1976 Před 2 lety

    Best explanation so far!

  • @jbstatistics
    @jbstatistics  Před 11 lety

    It's only reasonable to use a normal distribution to find a probability if your random variable is approximately normally distributed. If, say, the distribution was actually strongly skewed, but we based a probability calculation on the normal distribution, then we could be way off the mark. Since salaries tend to be skewed right, it's not reasonable to use the normal distribution for a probability calculation regarding a single individual.

  • @stefanofedele4820
    @stefanofedele4820 Před 6 lety

    Thank you so much for clarifying me such an important concept of statistics!

  • @tinox12
    @tinox12 Před 2 lety

    awesome dude ! especially the "this quesion cant be answered like that" part haha

  • @TheBerkobe
    @TheBerkobe Před 4 lety

    I have watched like 10 videos about CLT but this one is the most instructive. But I didn't understand where the formula at 11:28 came from. I understood its logic; when the sample size increases, the standard deviation of sample mean distribution decreases. Because the mean value will be more precise.

  • @jidapa2969
    @jidapa2969 Před 16 dny

    Thank you for this great video🤍.

  • @gautamhathiwala7267
    @gautamhathiwala7267 Před 3 lety

    So beautifully explained....
    Thank you so much, Sir....

  • @saptarc
    @saptarc Před 7 lety

    Thanks. Awesome tutorial and example.

    • @jbstatistics
      @jbstatistics  Před 7 lety

      You are very welcome. Thanks for the compliment!

  • @jbstatistics
    @jbstatistics  Před 10 lety

    Using a standard normal table, you should be able to find that the area to the left of 1.25 under a standard normal curve, rounded to 4 decimal places, is 0.8944. In the example in this video, we need to find the area to the right of 1.25, which is 1-0.8944 = 0.1056. If this doesn't make sense, you're going to have to spend some time reviewing how to use a standard normal table.

  • @calebwhite1445
    @calebwhite1445 Před 2 lety

    In R, to get the answer he mentioned at the end, you would do: 1 - pnorm(66000, 62000, 32000/sqrt(100))

  • @jbstatistics
    @jbstatistics  Před 11 lety

    That's great Vinayak! I'm glad to hear it!

  • @FaithandMay
    @FaithandMay Před 11 lety

    it did honestly help. and I have an exam in two hours!! thank you!

  • @BinethTharupama
    @BinethTharupama Před 8 lety +6

    Thank you very much,
    Understood every single thing..!! (Y)

  • @magedx7059
    @magedx7059 Před rokem

    thank you so much, statistics strats to make sense for me

  • @Omy0my
    @Omy0my Před 10 lety +1

    you are an amazing teacher! thank you very much!!

    • @jbstatistics
      @jbstatistics  Před 10 lety

      You are very welcome Omy0my! Thank you for the compliment!

  • @AnneAnimanga
    @AnneAnimanga Před 5 lety

    love this !
    im like binge watching all your vids .

  • @atikahauliaputri6677
    @atikahauliaputri6677 Před 7 lety

    Thank you so much for the beautiful explanation! It helps me a lot, I'm not kidding.

  • @alexpsilva2009
    @alexpsilva2009 Před 8 lety

    The best explanation ever!

  • @arkadipbasu2348
    @arkadipbasu2348 Před 2 lety

    Wonderful Explanation, thanks a lot

  • @jbstatistics
    @jbstatistics  Před 11 lety

    Hi Vinayak. I can't help you there. I might answer a question here or there to clarify a point on a video, but I definitely don't have time to offer tutoring or statistical consulting services to the world at large. Cheers.

  • @xiwang4918
    @xiwang4918 Před 8 lety

    Really clear explanation. Thank you a lot! I have understand this more!