Greg Stark wrote:
>> Doesn't all that assume a normally distributed random variable?
> I don't think so because of the law of large numbers. If you have a large population and sample it the
> sample behaves like a normal distribution when if the distribution of the population isn't.
Statistics is the part of mathematics I know least of, but aren't
you saying that in a large enough sample of people there will
always be some with age < 0 (which is what a normal distribution
would imply)?
Yours,
Laurenz Albe