"standard error" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: standard errors [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} standard error (plural standard errors)
  1. (statistics) A measure of how likely a mean of means is to be wrong. It is the standard deviation of the sample sizes in each to the sample means. Categories (topical): Statistics Translations (statistical measure): standardviga (Estonian), pamantayang mali (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-standard_error-en-noun-AZJqFtR4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics

Inflected forms

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