Standard error: meaning and interpretation

Meaning, Interpretation and Semantics

ion that is supposed to be characteristic for every empirical science. Physics studies movement on a frictionless plane, or the properties of a perfect vacuum; analogously, semantics deals with meaning and its properties on an equally abstract, yet empirical level. Or so it is assumed. But whereas physics, abstraction not withstanding, produces empirically testable predictions, it is far from c...

Standard error as standard?

To the Editor: I am concerned about errors in simple statistical concepts in articles recently published in Circulation. First, I worry about the widespread use of the standard error of mean (SEM) to describe the variability of numerical data. Specifically, SEM was used in 30% of the clinical investigations and reports and in 76% of the basic science reports analyzed for this purpose (the first...

A Standard Error: Distinguishing Standard Deviation From Standard Error

A recent Perspective in Nature issued a call for more transparency in the reporting of preclinical research (1). Although this article focused primarily on experimental design, it emphasized the need for improved reporting in the scientific literature. Within the context of preclinical studies, there have been discussions regarding the appropriate reporting of standard error (SE) and standard d...

The Social Interpretation of Language and Meaning

Systemic Functional Linguistics provides a social perspective to language study and views language as a social semiotic resource people use to accomplish their purposes by expressing meanings in context. This paper aims to discuss the semantic aspect from the three metafunctions and the context in which meaning is

Meaning and Belief in Constitutional Interpretation