probable error

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The precipitation of two preceding seasons, however, has some effect on the trees, as appears in the second line of Section A, where the correlation coefficient is +0.288, or 3.2 times the probable error.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth

Sunspots of a given month and earthquakes of that month and the next: +0.084, or 3.1 times the probable error.

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

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 Huntington, Ellsworth

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