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Continuous Variable: can take on any value between two specified values. Obtained by measuring. Covariance: a measure of the direction of the linear relationship between two variables. Discrete ...

ABSTRACT: The Central Limit Theorem occasionally results in extremely slow convergence to the Normal distribution, making the corresponding approximation virtually useless (a typical example being the ...