probable error
Example Sentences
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With the small number of cases involved the probable error is too great to allow either of these measures as indicative of relationship.
From Adenoids and Diseased Tonsils Their Effect on General Intelligence by Margaret Cobb Rogers
A correlation coefficient four times the probable error, which can always be determined by a formula well known to mathematicians, is generally considered to afford evidence of some kind of relation between two phenomena.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington
These coefficients are all small, but the number of individual cases, 600 months, is so large that the probable error is greatly reduced, being only ±0.027 or ±0.028.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington
I should not know how to estimate the volume of outside dealings within many billions of "probable error."
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
Then among the foothills of the Sierras at Colfax, the coefficient drops till it is scarcely larger than the probable error.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington
