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Central Limit Theorem: A sampling distribution of the mean is approximately normally distributed if the sample size is sufficiently large. This is true no matter what the population distribution is.

Stratified sampling is considered, where (a) the mean integrated squared error (MISE) metric is used in place of the mean squared error (MSE) metric; (b) the entire ...