probable error
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Connected with the coefficient of correlation, usually, is a figure for "probable error," which depends, primarily, on the square root of the number of observations.
From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.
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
On an approximate method of computing probable error.
From United States Government Publications, v. 8 Jan-Jun 1892 A Monthly Catalog by Compiled
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)
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
