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standard deviation vs. standard error

standard deviation

noun

Statistics.
  1. a measure of dispersion in a frequency distribution, equal to the square root of the mean of the squares of the deviations from the arithmetic mean of the distribution.

standard error

noun

Statistics.
  1. the standard deviation of a distribution of a sample statistic, especially when the mean is used as the statistic.