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The standard error is an estimate of the standard deviation of a statistic. This lesson shows how to compute the standard error, based on sample data.
(Redirected from Standard error (statistics)). For the computer programming concept, see standard error stream. For a value that is sampled with an unbiased normally distributed error, the above depicts the proportion of samples that would fall between 0, 1, 2, and 3 standard deviations above and below the actual value.