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Interactive webpage > Understanding variation in your data > How to measure accuracy and precision #23

Closed willdkreid closed 1 year ago

willdkreid commented 1 year ago

Interactive webpage > Understanding variation in your data > How to measure accuracy and precision > paragraph 5

  1. State why it is generally better to use standard error over standard deviation e.g. "Standard error is usually preferred to standard deviation when presenting summary statistics in graphs or tables, as it corrects for sample size."
rasanderson commented 1 year ago

Text updated as SD not really a measure of accuracy (can only be done properly with e.g. a reference standard etc.)

rasanderson commented 1 year ago

Other text updated to resolve issue.