standard error
Noun
Meaning
standard error (plural standard errors)
(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.
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Among other advantages, IRT provides a basis for obtaining an estimate of the location of a test-taker on a given latent trait as well as the standard error of measurement of that location.
For example, it can redirect standard output (stdout) and standard error (stderr) at the same time using the &> operator.
For modern tests, the standard error of measurement is about three points.
For this reason, estimates of the incidence of abortion must be made without determining certainty related to standard error.
Giles (2004) argued that the standard error of the estimate of A can be used to derive that of the estimate of G directly without using a jackknife at all.
In that case, the term standard error is properly applied: the precision of the average is equal to the known standard deviation of the process divided by the square root of the number of measurements averaged.