probable error
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After the average is given a number in parenthesis which is the probable error.
From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Harry L. Hollingworth
The seepage of the underground water is so slow that not until four years' rainfall is taken into account is the correlation coefficient more than four times the probable error.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington
If, therefore, all were rated and scaled by this value, the results would fall under a curve of probable error.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
For reasons explained by Mr. Silberling in a footnote, he uses, instead of the "probable error," a statement of the number of observations.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
For thevalues of M, whence the deviations are measured, and forthose of the corresponding probable error, see the headingsto the columns in Table II.
From Finger Prints by Sir Francis Galton
