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Ah!  This shows my ignorance of statistics.  It was a failure (on my
part) to properly understand the terminology - the standard deviation of
the parameter estimate is the same thing as the standard error of the
mean!  

Thank you, and enjoy your holiday!

Allison Nugent
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> StandardDeviation_of_BetaA = sqrt(Pooled_Variance/N_groupA)

But, the important thing to note is that beta is the sample mean. The
standard deviation of the mean *is* the standard error --- it's just
terminology that people say "standard error" for the standard
deviation *of a parameter* --- no further division by sqrt(N) is
required. That is, the GLM maths is giving you the parameter estimates
beta, and the standard deviations of these estimates, which you could
call standard errors.