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A necessary qualification is . As printed, the assumptions also permit almost surely; then for every , so the asserted positive lower bound is false. Assume the intended nondegenerate case.
The central limit theorem states that independent identically distributed variables with mean zero and finite positive variance satisfy , where . Since the normal distribution has no atom at ,
For example,

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