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standard error
Message posted by M Lacy on January 9, 2000 at 12:00 AM (ET)
When would I report a standard
error instead of a standard
deviation? I have a very large
sample (30,000+); mean=30, s=25,
se=.14. The variable is positively
skewed - does that matter?
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Re: standard error
Message posted by Bill on January 10, 2000 at 12:00 AM (ET)
See: Bartko JJ. Rationale for reporting standard deviations rather than standard errors of the mean.
Am J Psychiatry. 1985 Sep;142(9):1060.
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