[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":254},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-/blog/how-to-calculate-standard-error/":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":233,"extension":234,"meta":235,"navigation":248,"path":249,"seo":250,"sitemap":251,"stem":252,"__hash__":253},"content/blog/how-to-calculate-standard-error.md","How to Calculate Standard Error: Formula and Examples",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":217},"minimark",[9,14,23,28,39,43,54,57,73,79,83,86,92,99,105,109,114,117,121,124,128,131,135,149,153,189,193,196,200],[10,11,13],"h1",{"id":12},"how-to-calculate-standard-error","How to Calculate Standard Error",[15,16,17,18,22],"p",{},"The ",[19,20,21],"strong",{},"standard error (SE)"," measures how much a sample mean is expected to vary from the true population mean. 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