Central limit theorem notation Can you tell me if my understanding of the CLT is correct? Maybe it's just a matter of notation.
The classical CLT states:
Let $X_1,...,X_i,...,X_n$ be a sequence of iid random variables drawn from a distribution with mean $\mu$ and variance $\sigma^2 < \infty$.
Then, let the sample avarage be equal to $\bar{X}_n = \frac{X_1+...+X_i+...+X_n}{n}$.
The CLT says, when $n$ becomes large then $\sqrt{n}(\bar{X}_n-\mu)$ is approx. normal with mean $0$ and variance $\sigma^{2}$.
What this theorem is saying is: take a random sample from a population, then compute the sample average and keep it aside, then you keep sampling let's say for additional 100,000 times, and you get additional (possibly different, at least most of them) 100,000 sample averages. Then, if you look at the sampling distribution of all these sample averages, it would be approximately normal.
Now, the generic $X_i$ is the sample average obtained from the $i$ random sampling or is it simply a random observation obtained from the $i$ random sampling? I mean, is it $\bar{X}_i$ or a single observation?
What I'm asking is: should I can consider $X_i$ either as a single observation (in this case each draw means to draw a single value at each trial, and the number of random draws is $n$)  or as a sample mean (and in this case I'm drawing samples fixed in size, and in this case, $n$ is the number of random samples drawn)?
Shall the same interpretation for $X_i$ hold when we present the law of large numbers?

You already answered it yourself

$$\bar{X}_n = \frac{X_1+...+X_i+...+X_n}{n}$$


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*$\bar{X}_n$ is a sample mean.
The subscript here refers to the sample size.


*$X_i$ is a variable in the sample.
The subscript here refers to the id of the variable. The id's are the integers from 1 untill n.

An example is the image below of a Galton board (from Wikipedia Matemateca (IME/USP)/Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton)

The distribution of the beads at the bottom is the distribution of an average (or sum) $\bar{X}$, where it relates to the sum of the movements of a bead through 5 duplicate layers of pins. Every double layer the beads will hit the pins and go straight with 50% chance, left with 25% chance, or right with 25% chance. You can see each double layer as a variable $x_i$ with possible values of $-1,0,1$ (relating to the movement of the bead). The bins at the end are the result of the sum of those $x_1+x_2+x_3+x_4+x_5$ and you can end up somewhere between $-5$ and $5$ (actually this board also has bins -6 and +6, it is not such a perfect process with only steps of -1, 0 or +1).
So you have

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*$X_i$ the value of the movement of a bead in a particular (double) layer.

*$\bar{X}_5$ the sum of all the movements in the 5 double layers.

*The hundreds of beads in the bottom, which are different realisations of averaging/summing a sample of bead movements. The distribution of those beads will approximate a normal distribution when we increase the size of the Galton board.

