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Standard error of a statistic

Written by the Fiveable Content Team โ€ข Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examโ€ขWritten by the Fiveable Content Team โ€ข Last updated August 2025

Definition

An estimate of the standard deviation of a sample statistic, used to measure the variability of the statistic across repeated samples.

AP course connection

Topic 6.2: 6.2 Constructing a Confidence Interval for a Population Proportion

Unit 6

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