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.

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If you specify the option METHOD=SEQ and do not include a SIZE statement, PROC SURVEYSELECT uses the equal probability version of Chromy's method for sequential random sampling. This method selects ...