range of error

Asked for comment, torch relay spokesman Roman Osin said that the number of times the torch had failed was within the normal range of error and that there had been similar incidents during the relays before the London and Beijing Olympics.

BP lawyer Mike Brock took issue with government scientists' methods for calculating the spill, saying they had a wide range of error and that they rushed to come up with an estimate in the days after the spill to appease the public.

Characterizing such pools through seismic studies is hard, and the range of error is huge.

It may be questioned whether the whole range of error presents a dogma of more pernicious tendency than the doctrine of Mixed Moral Actions.

But others want to keep picking away at it until the numbers agree better with each other and have a smaller range of error — to within 20 parts per billion.