probable error

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If 8.80" be the assumed parallax, with � 0.02" as probable error, then the uncertainty of the sun's distance is still nearly a quarter of a million of miles.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various

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

A correlation coefficient four times the probable error, which can always be determined by a formula well known to mathematicians, is generally considered to afford evidence of some kind of relation between two phenomena.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth

An examination of 1407 angles showed that the probable error of an observed angle is on the average �0″.28.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

On an approximate method of computing probable error.

From United States Government Publications, v. 8 Jan-Jun 1892 A Monthly Catalog by Compiled