Asked by Tanaia Stenline on Apr 23, 2024

Standard deviation measures the ______ for a variable, standard error represents the ______ calculated from samples.

A) variability of statistics; variability of scores
B) variability of scores; variability of statistics
C) variability of scores; error of scores
D) variability of statistics; error of scores

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variation in a set of numerical data, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean.

Standard Error

A statistical term that measures the accuracy with which a sample distribution represents a population using standard deviation.

  • Understand the distinction between standard deviation and standard error, and their respective uses in statistics.