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

For the hypothesis test, we calculate the estimated standard deviation, or standard error, of the difference in sample means, X¯ 1 − X¯ 2 .

From Textbooks • Mar. 27, 2020

Pooled Variance a weighted average of two variances that can then be used when calculating standard error.

From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017

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.

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