Standard error of x-bar: SE = s / sqrt(n), the estimated standard deviation of the sampling distribution of x-bar.
How to apply it: Standard error appears in the denominator of the t-statistic and in the margin of error of the confidence interval.
Course: AP Statistics · Unit: Inference for Quantitative Data: Means
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