probable error

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In explanation of Warton's probable error two extenuating facts should be remembered.

From A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Warton, Thomas

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 Huntington, Ellsworth

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

I should not know how to estimate the volume of outside dealings within many billions of "probable error."

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

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 Galton, Francis, Sir