What Is the Standard Error

question 11

Multiple Choice

What is the standard error?

• A)The standard error is the standard deviation of sample means.
• B)The standard error is a measure of how representative a sample parameter is likely to be of the population parameter.
• C)The standard error is computed from known sample statistics, and it provides an unbiased estimate of the standard deviation of the statistic.
• D)All of the options describe the standard error.

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