Animator Shuyi Chiou and the folks at CreatureCast give an adorable introduction to the central limit theorem – an important concept in probability theory that can reveal normal distributions (i.e.

“I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the ‘Law of Frequency of Error’,” the British polymath Francis Galton wrote in 1889.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A set of n points in Euclidean space is partitioned into the k groups that minimize the within groups sum of squares. Under the assumption ...

We prove a central limit theorem for the sequence of random compositions of a two-color randomly reinforced urn. As a consequence, we are able to show that the distribution of the urn limit ...

CreatureCast - Central Limit Theorem from Casey Dunn on Vimeo. The normal distribution, a bell-shaped statistical curve with a concentration about the mean, is a common phenomenon when looking at ...