Overview: Focuses on thinking skills rather than just what formulae to use.Provides motivations, and intuition, rather than detailed proofs.Begins with very simple and basic techniques, and connects theory and In a way, the world is made up of approximations, and surely there is no exception in the world of statistics. In fact, approximations, especially large sample approximations, are very important parts of both theoretical and - plied statistics.TheGaussiandistribution,alsoknownasthe normaldistri- tion,is merelyonesuchexample,dueto thewell-knowncentrallimittheorem. Large-sample techniques
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