It's easy if they understand the concept of a sampling distribution of means. The standard error is the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of means for a given sample size.
________________________________________ From: Annette Taylor [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:29 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] standard deviation versus standard error I am trying to explain to students with no or minimal stats knowledge the difference between standard deviation and standard error. They get SD pretty well because I can talk about average deviation about a mean for a set of scores. SE, the more commonly accepted error term these days, is a bit more complicated. Anyone have an "easy" way to describe it to students? Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13390.2bbc1cc8fd0e5f9e0b91f01828c87814&n=T&l=tips&o=2485 or send a blank email to leave-2485-13390.2bbc1cc8fd0e5f9e0b91f01828c87...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=2486 or send a blank email to leave-2486-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
