[HN Gopher] What is a standard error? [pdf]
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       What is a standard error? [pdf]
        
       Author : luu
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2024-01-08 19:16 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | mock-possum wrote:
       | To give a little preview of the content of the (very short)
       | paper:
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       | > In statistics, the standard error has a clear technical
       | definition: it is the estimated standard devi- ation of a
       | parameter estimate. In practice, though, challenges arise when we
       | go beyond the simple balls-in-urn model to consider
       | generalizations beyond the population from which the data were
       | sampled. This is important because generalization is nearly
       | always the goal of quantitative studies. In this brief paper we
       | consider three examples:
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       | > What is the standard error when the bias is unknown and
       | changing (my bathroom scale)?
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       | >How do you interpret standard errors from a regression fit to
       | the entire population (all 50 states)?
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       | > How should we account for nonsampling error when reporting
       | uncertainties (election polls)?
        
         | happytoexplain wrote:
         | This and "standard deviation" are a couple of those terms for
         | which I'd be interested in a definition that didn't assume
         | quite so much domain knowledge (maybe one step above a totally
         | naive layman's metaphor). I hear the terms all the time, but I
         | only have intuitive statistics knowledge (averages, curves,
         | controls, etc). I recall doing a brief Wikipedia dive once and
         | coming up dissatisfied.
        
           | kkoncevicius wrote:
           | Maybe this (and the answers therein) can help:
           | https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/550619/18417
        
       | anonymousiam wrote:
       | "Standard error" could also be stderr (fd 2) in C.
        
         | mike_hock wrote:
         | stderr is the obvious pun thread starter for this post and
         | you've preempted it with this comment :(
        
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