Why is the central limit theorem important to criminal justice research?

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The central limit theorem states that if an infinite number of random samples are drawn from any population, as the sample size becomes large, the sampling distribution of sample means will approach normality, even if the population is not normally distributed. In research into issues and phenomena within criminal justice and criminology, researchers generally work with skewed data. The central limit theorem saves the day by ensuring that even skewed variables will produce normal sampling distributions.

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