Pierre Simon Laplace, Inverse Probability, Central Limit Theorem, Probability, Deep Dives.
that from 1745 to 1770, there were 251527 boys and 241945 girls born in Paris. Remember, the census data is often not accurate. At best, it’s a reasonable proxy for the actual population values. Hence the numbers that Laplace retrieved can be thought of as a rather large random sample. The sample