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Re: [Phys-l] projectile motion lab



Hi Tim-
Does one of the references distinguish - I repeat - distinguish
between "standard deviation" and "standard deviation of the mean" ?
If so, could you kindly tell me which one?
Regards,
Jack

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Folkerts, Timothy J wrote:




Can someone direct me to an authoritative work on statistics
that distinguishes between "standard deviation" and
"standard deviation of the mean" ?

How about NIST? They have a great online applied stats references.

Here is a general discussion of error analysis
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/mpc/section5/mpc5.htm

Here is a bit on confidence intervals for means, which mentions "standard error".
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/eda352.htm

Or read the glossary for a quick (although rather dense) definition for "standard error"
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/glossary.htm


Tim Folkerts


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