probable error
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Page 17: "Manuel Commenus" probable error for "Manuel Comnenus".
From Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England by Marson, Charles L. (Charles Latimer)
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 Huntington, Ellsworth
While acknowledging the one error, detected by the Reviewer, I avail myself of the opportunity to apprise those who have my book of a probable error, not discovered by him.
From Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply by Upham, Charles Wentworth
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
Trigonometrical Surveys in India, to be in probable error to the following extent: Present SurveyValue of Height Most probableValue.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
