A standard error is
A)the variance of the sampling distribution.
B)the standard deviation of the population distribution.
C)the standard deviation of the sampling distribution.
D)the variance of the population distribution.

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The standard error is the standard deviation of the sampling distribution. It is calculated by dividing the standard deviation of the population by the square root of the sample size. This value provides a measure of the variability of sample means when drawing repeated random samples from the same population.

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