probable error
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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
It rises rapidly, however, as one advances among the mountains, until at Boca it attains the high figure of +0.604 or eight times the probable error, and continues high in the dry area farther east.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington
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
Various authorities will give different estimates of the probable error in observations taken at the Pole.
From The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary
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
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