probable error

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But after allowing for my probable error, it figures an ellipse of low eccentricity, between the orbits of Io and Europa.

From Spacehounds of IPC by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)

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

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

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)

The seepage of the underground water is so slow that not until four years' rainfall is taken into account is the correlation coefficient more than four times the probable error.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth