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proportion of samples that would fall between 0, 1, 2, and 3 standard deviations above and below the actual value. The standard error (SE) is the standard normal distribution formula deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic,[1] most commonly of the
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mean. The term may also be used to refer to an estimate of that standard deviation, derived from a normal distribution pdf particular sample used to compute the estimate. For example, the sample mean is the usual estimator of a population mean. However, different samples drawn from that same population would in normal distribution statistics general have different values of the sample mean, so there is a distribution of sampled means (with its own mean and variance). The standard error of the mean (SEM) (i.e., of using the sample mean as a method of estimating the population mean) is the standard deviation of those sample means over all possible samples (of a given size) drawn from the
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population. Secondly, the standard error of the mean can refer to an estimate of that standard deviation, computed from the sample of data being analyzed at the time. In regression analysis, the term "standard error" is also used in the phrase standard error of the regression to mean the ordinary least squares estimate of the standard deviation of the underlying errors.[2][3] Contents 1 Introduction to the standard error 1.1 Standard error of the mean (SEM) 1.1.1 Sampling from a distribution with a large standard deviation 1.1.2 Sampling from a distribution with a small standard deviation 1.1.3 Larger sample sizes give smaller standard errors 1.1.4 Using a sample to estimate the standard error 2 Standard error of the mean 3 Student approximation when σ value is unknown 4 Assumptions and usage 4.1 Standard error of mean versus standard deviation 5 Correction for finite population 6 Correction for correlation in the sample 7 Relative standard error 8 See also 9 References Introduction to the standard error[edit] The standard error is a quantitative measure of uncertainty. Consider the following scenarios. Scenario 1. For an upcoming national electi
proportion of samples that would fall between 0, 1, 2, and 3 standard deviations above and below the actual value. The standard error (SE) is the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic,[1] most commonly of the mean. normal distribution standard deviation The term may also be used to refer to an estimate of that standard deviation, standard normal distribution derived from a particular sample used to compute the estimate. For example, the sample mean is the usual estimator of a population mean.
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However, different samples drawn from that same population would in general have different values of the sample mean, so there is a distribution of sampled means (with its own mean and variance). The standard error of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_error mean (SEM) (i.e., of using the sample mean as a method of estimating the population mean) is the standard deviation of those sample means over all possible samples (of a given size) drawn from the population. Secondly, the standard error of the mean can refer to an estimate of that standard deviation, computed from the sample of data being analyzed at the time. In regression analysis, the term "standard error" is also used in the phrase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_error standard error of the regression to mean the ordinary least squares estimate of the standard deviation of the underlying errors.[2][3] Contents 1 Introduction to the standard error 1.1 Standard error of the mean (SEM) 1.1.1 Sampling from a distribution with a large standard deviation 1.1.2 Sampling from a distribution with a small standard deviation 1.1.3 Larger sample sizes give smaller standard errors 1.1.4 Using a sample to estimate the standard error 2 Standard error of the mean 3 Student approximation when σ value is unknown 4 Assumptions and usage 4.1 Standard error of mean versus standard deviation 5 Correction for finite population 6 Correction for correlation in the sample 7 Relative standard error 8 See also 9 References Introduction to the standard error[edit] The standard error is a quantitative measure of uncertainty. Consider the following scenarios. Scenario 1. For an upcoming national election, 2000 voters are chosen at random and asked if they will vote for candidate A or candidate B. Of the 2000 voters, 1040 (52%) state that they will vote for candidate A. The researchers report that candidate A is expected to receive 52% of the final vote, with a margin of error of 2%. In this scenario, the 2000 voters are a sample from all the actual voters. The sample proportion of 52% is an estimate of the true proportion who
Random Entry New in MathWorld MathWorld Classroom About MathWorld Contribute to MathWorld Send a Message to the Team MathWorld Book Wolfram Web Resources» 13,594 entries Last updated: Wed Oct http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NormalDistribution.html 19 2016 Created, developed, and nurturedbyEricWeisstein at WolframResearch Probability and Statistics>Statistical Distributions>Continuous Distributions> History and Terminology>Wolfram Language Commands> Interactive Entries>Interactive Demonstrations> Normal Distribution A normal distribution in a variate with mean and variance is a statistic distribution with probability density function (1) on the domain . While statisticians and mathematicians uniformly use the term normal distribution "normal distribution" for this distribution, physicists sometimes call it a Gaussian distribution and, because of its curved flaring shape, social scientists refer to it as the "bell curve." Feller (1968) uses the symbol for in the above equation, but then switches to in Feller (1971). de Moivre developed the normal distribution as an approximation to normal distribution error the binomial distribution, and it was subsequently used by Laplace in 1783 to study measurement errors and by Gauss in 1809 in the analysis of astronomical data (Havil 2003, p.157). The normal distribution is implemented in the Wolfram Language as NormalDistribution[mu, sigma]. The so-called "standard normal distribution" is given by taking and in a general normal distribution. An arbitrary normal distribution can be converted to a standard normal distribution by changing variables to , so , yielding (2) The Fisher-Behrens problem is the determination of a test for the equality of means for two normal distributions with different variances. The normal distribution function gives the probability that a standard normal variate assumes a value in the interval , (3) (4) where erf is a function sometimes called the error function. Neither nor erf can be expressed in terms of finite additions, subtractions, multiplications, and root extractions, and so both must be either computed numerically or otherwise approximated. The normal distribution is the l
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