MadSci Network: Engineering
Query:

Re: Why is it called 'standard error of MEAN', when itīs NOT a mean?

Date: Tue Jun 5 10:16:23 2001
Posted By: Maurice MESSERI, Faculty, Math and Control Science, ESIEE (Retired Math and Control science professor)
Area of science: Engineering
ID: 989355232.Eg
Message:

It's a misleading name, but it has to do with a "mean". it may be 
considered as a good positive approximation of the mean of the deviation 
of the elements of a statistic series frome the mean of this series. The 
name "standard deviation" is more appropriate to the described data.


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