probable error
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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 Sumner, William Graham
It was a moderately complicated equation, and the computation of the probable error was especially tricky.
From Talents, Incorporated by Leinster, Murray
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 Huntington, Ellsworth
The probable error of a single observation of a fine object with this theodolite is about 0″.2.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
The probable error of a declination from a single transit was ±0″.141, and judging from the accidental errors, the series ought to give trustworthy results.
From Astronomical Discovery by Turner, Herbert Hall
