Standard error

Risk evaluation - risk management - assurance - statistics.

Standard error is a measure of the accuracy of an estimate.

It is the standard deviation of the distribution of a large theoretical population of estimates.

The smaller the standard error reported, the more accurate the estimate is presented as being.

See also

• Assurance
• Confidence
• Confidence interval
• Confidence level
• Office for National Statistics
• Risk evaluation
• Risk management
• Standard deviation
• Statistics