The central limit theorem is one of the most important theorems in statistics. It approximates the distribution of the meanof any sample of size n from any distribution by the distribution
Now write
so we have
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Now expand so
since
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Taking the Fourier transform,
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This is of the form
where and
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But this is a Fourier transform of a Gaussian function, so
Therefore,
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But and
, so