What assumptions are made when using the standard error of the mean formula?

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What assumptions are made when using the standard error of the mean formula?
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The standard error of the mean formula assumes that the data is randomly sampled from the population. It also assumes that the data is approximately normally distributed. Additionally, for calculating the standard deviation, the data points should be reasonably independent of each other.