If the individual measurements could be viewed as approximately independent and identically distributed, then their mean could be approximated by a normal distribution.
But it is perhaps the first time that North Korea's state media have approximated the truth.
The book is a tour de force, showing, for example, how the potential contribution of biofuels can be approximated from just three numbers: the intensity of sunlight, the efficiency with which plants turn that sunlight into stored energy and the available land area in Britain.
It is, however, approximated by the distinction made in some polls between Republican voters who identify themselves as "somewhat conservative" and those who identify as "very conservative".
But the increase alone in China's power demand over the past two years has approximated the total electricity consumption of Brazil.
These proportions are closely approximated in practice.
Then the area of the "rectangle" is closely approximated by its height, which equals the circle's radius, multiplied by the length of one set of curved sides which together form one-half of the circle's circumference.
Golconda, whose area by the mid-17th century approximated that of the Telugu linguistic and cultural region, was built up as a strong state by the Quṭb Shāhīs from 1512.
Supply approximated to demand, and the growth of both made more ingenious and pretentious the science of supporting attribution.
The birth rate fell sharply after the early 1980s, and population growth slowed, though the death rate approximated the world average.
For large sample sizes, the central limit theorem indicates that the sampling distribution of x̄ can be approximated by a normal probability distribution.
