What is the relationship between the standard error of the mean and the sample size?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-01T16:48:18

Assuming that the sample is randomly drawn, and that population size is practically infinite. Standard error is given by the following formula

#SE = \frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}#

Hence standard error is inversely related to square root of sample size.