The standard error of the mean:
A)is the same as the sample standard deviation.
B)is the same as the population standard deviation.
C)is the standard deviation of a theoretical sampling distribution.
D )is equal to the sample size minus 1.

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The standard error of the mean is defined as the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample mean. It measures how much the sample mean of the data is expected to vary from the true population mean. Choices A, B, and D describe different concepts.

The Standard Error of the Mean