standard error

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The article has been deleted and now links back to the website's landing page for a standard error message: "Not found, error 404. The page you are looking for no longer exists."

From Salon

Unlike a standard error, a root mean square error does not easily translate into a traditional statistical confidence interval for the vote count for an individual candidate or the vote differential between two candidates.

From Seattle Times

In five cases, the issue was a mixup of statistical terms—for example, writing “standard deviation,” which measures variability across data, in place of “standard error,” a type of standard deviation that depends on sample size.

From Science Magazine

The standard error of the mean is smaller than the symbol size.

From Nature

The error bars indicate one standard error.

From Nature