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measurement
Measurement is the process by which we represent some attribute of an object with a number or place it into a category.
standard error
Standard error is the standard deviation of a sampling distribution.
SS Error
SS error is the amount of error left unexplained by the model; the area of all the squared residuals based on the distance of each score from the model prediction.
sampling error
Sampling error is the variation that occurs from sample to sample due to the fact that no sample is a perfect representation of the population; can be biased or unbiased; also known as sampling variation.
margin of error
Margin of error is also called critical distance; the distance between the boundaries of the "unlikely" area for a sampling distribution and the mean of that distribution expressed in the same unit as the variable (e.g., mm, lbs, dollars).