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Re: [Phys-l] Basic statistics

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Folkerts, Timothy J wrote:
But you seem not to agree. See below:



I suggest we not make up new names until doing a little research on
accepted names used by NIST, CDC, professional statisticians, etc.

I agree completely - there are already plenty of common terms out there that we can use.
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In my mind, "standard deviation of the mean" is a perfectly fine,unmixed
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ok, so who, among "NIST, CDC, professional statisticians, etc." uses it?

Regards,
Jack




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