The idea that a large number of sample means or proportions will approximate a normal distribution,regardless of the distribution of the population from which they were drawn,is known as:
A)sample variance
B)population variance
C)central limit theorem
D)random error
E)simple random sample

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The central limit theorem states that regardless of the underlying population distribution, the distribution of the sample means will approach a normal distribution as the sample size increases. This is a fundamental concept in statistics and has important implications for hypothesis testing and confidence interval estimation.

The Idea That a Large Number of Sample Means or Proportions