probable error
Example Sentences
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We still have a probable error of several miles in hitting the target.
From The Electronic Mind Reader by Blaine, John
It was a moderately complicated equation, and the computation of the probable error was especially tricky.
From Talents, Incorporated by Leinster, Murray
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
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.
After the average is given a number in parenthesis which is the probable error.
From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Hollingworth, Harry L.
