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to ensure your experiment is precise and to prevent error to happen during experiment

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Q: Why do you need to calculate standard deviation and relative error?
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Is standard deviation same as standard error?

From what ive gathered standard error is how relative to the population some data is, such as how relative an answer is to men or to women. The lower the standard error the more meaningful to the population the data is. Standard deviation is how different sets of data vary between each other, sort of like the mean. * * * * * Not true! Standard deviation is a property of the whole population or distribution. Standard error applies to a sample taken from the population and is an estimate for the standard deviation.


What is the standard error of the sampling distribution equal to when you do not know the population standard deviation?

You calculate the standard error using the data.


How does one calculate the standard error of the sample mean?

Standard error of the sample mean is calculated dividing the the sample estimate of population standard deviation ("sample standard deviation") by the square root of sample size.


How do you calculate the absolute probable error of the mean?

(0.6745 * Standard deviation)/ (n^1/2) :)


Why is standard deviation of a statistic called standard error?

The standard error is the standard deviation divided by the square root of the sample size.


What is the difference between standard error of mean and standard deviation of means?

Standard error of the mean (SEM) and standard deviation of the mean is the same thing. However, standard deviation is not the same as the SEM. To obtain SEM from the standard deviation, divide the standard deviation by the square root of the sample size.


How do you compute the standard error in refractive index from your graph?

To compute the standard error in refractive index from a graph, calculate the standard deviation of the data points and divide it by the square root of the sample size. This will give you the standard error in your refractive index measurement.


Why is the standard error a smaller numerical value compared to the standard deviation?

Let sigma = standard deviation. Standard error (of the sample mean) = sigma / square root of (n), where n is the sample size. Since you are dividing the standard deviation by a positive number greater than 1, the standard error is always smaller than the standard deviation.


The standard deviation of a point estimator is called the?

standard error


Will the standard error always be lower than the standard deviation?

No.


Can standard deviation equal standard error?

If n = 1.


What if the standard deviation is negative?

There is a calculation error.