standard error

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So, each IQ test score has a standard error of measurement that accounts for the margin of error above and below the test-taker’s score.

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2025

The margin of error depends on the confidence level or percentage of confidence and the standard error of the mean.

From Textbooks • Mar. 27, 2020

This is sometimes called the standard error of the estimate.

From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017

If you decrease the sample size to 50, will the standard error of the mean be smaller or larger?

From Textbooks • Sep. 19, 2013

Averages referred to in the text as significantly different differ by as much as, or more than, the sum of two times the standard error of each of the two averages.

From Subspeciation in the Meadow Mouse, Microtus pennsylvanicus, in Wyoming, Colorado, and Adjacent Areas by Anderson, Sydney