[R] can I calculate Standard deviation or variance?

Jim Lemon drjimlemon at gmail.com
Tue May 17 12:48:02 CEST 2016


Hi Kristi,
Multiply the standard error by the square root of the sample size.

Jim


On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:09 PM, Kristi Glover
<kristi.glover at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R User,
>
> I have a data with a mean and Standard Error (SE) but no sample size, I am wondering whether I can compute the standard deviation (SD) with these information. if possible, how much would be for the given example?
>
>> mean<-0.098
>
>> SE<-0.0006
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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