standard error of the mean

standard error of the mean
an indication of how well a sample mean estimates the population mean by measurement of the standard deviation of a sampling distribution of the means. It is approximately equal to

where s> is the sample estimate of the standard deviation and n> is the sample size.


Medical dictionary. 2011.

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