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by antognini 309 days ago
There's an interesting extension of the Central Limit Theorem called the Edgeworth Series. If you have a large but finite sample, the resulting distribution will be approximately Gaussian, but will deviate from a Gaussian distribution in a predictable way described by Hermite polynomials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgeworth_series