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Refers to the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic calculated from a sample. Standard errors are often required when forming confidence intervals or testing hypotheses about the population from which the statistic was sampled.

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The fallacy of splitting data collection time into shorter intervals to reduce error

Say you measure the (roughly constant) rate of something (i.e., counts of something per unit time) over 30 seconds, and you repeat this reading four times to find the mean and standard error of the me …
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Standard deviation vs standard error of the mean for intervals

Ok, this is what I think is a quick and dirty answer, based on other answers and after playing around with some data. If you have twice as many samples by making them half as long, then the mean of y …
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Standard deviation vs standard error of the mean for intervals

I couldn't find a question like this anywhere on Cross Validated. Also I struggled to write the title for this question. Imagine I have a satellite picture of a straight road, and I expect that the n …
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