Timeline for What are Central Limit Theorems and why are they called so?
Current License: CC BY-SA 2.5
11 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 2010 at 4:05 | history | edited | Andrey Rekalo |
Tag added
|
|
| Oct 29, 2010 at 18:33 | comment | added | Suvrit | Both are correct. The first one if one uses "history" to evaluate correctness, and the second one if one uses "closeness to the center" to evaluate "correctness" ;-) | |
| Oct 29, 2010 at 17:25 | answer | added | John D. Cook | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 29, 2010 at 17:22 | answer | added | Andrey Rekalo | timeline score: 10 | |
| Oct 29, 2010 at 15:43 | history | edited | Fedor Petrov | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
added 1 characters in body
|
| Oct 29, 2010 at 14:48 | comment | added | Someone | In my probability theory book (the one by H. Bauer) the name is also contributed to George Pólya, but nothing is written about the meaning. | |
| Oct 29, 2010 at 14:05 | answer | added | Henri | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 29, 2010 at 14:01 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem#History) suggests #1: "The actual term "central limit theorem" (in German: "zentraler Grenzwertsatz") was first used by George Pólya in 1920 in the title of a paper.[7](Le Cam 1986) Pólya referred to the theorem as "central" due to its importance in probability theory." | |
| Oct 29, 2010 at 13:55 | comment | added | Deane Yang | I'm assuming of course that one has normalized the mean and variance. | |
| Oct 29, 2010 at 13:54 | comment | added | Deane Yang | The way I see it is that the space of all probability distributions (satisfying the conditions required for CLT) has a distinguished point, namely the Gaussian. That's the center of the space. | |
| Oct 29, 2010 at 13:51 | history | asked | Fedor Petrov | CC BY-SA 2.5 |