Wikipedia's entry on the central limit theorem, cited for its History section, which states Laplace rescued de Moivre's 1733 finding from obscurity in his 1812 Theorie analytique des probabilites, expanding it by approximating the binomial distribution with the normal distribution.
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PublisherWikimedia Foundation
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem
Source TypeEncyclopedia
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