Standard Error Visualizer

Illustrates the difference between standard deviation and standard error, and how standard error shrinks with sample size.

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What it does

• Shows the variability of individual observations (SD)
• Shows the variability of the sample mean (SE)
• Demonstrates how SE = SD / sqrt(n) decreases as n increases
• Addresses a common source of confusion in statistics

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Key concepts illustrated

• Standard deviation — how spread out individual data points are
• Standard error — how precisely the sample mean estimates the population mean
• SE shrinks with larger samples (precision improves)
• The relationship: SE = SD / sqrt(n)

This is a teaching tool for building intuition about sampling precision.

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