probable error
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The smaller the probable error, the more reliable is the mean result.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various
Still, many skulls deviate from the average, and we should like to know what is the probable error in this case.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read
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 Charles Wentworth Upham
For reasons explained by Mr. Silberling in a footnote, he uses, instead of the "probable error," a statement of the number of observations.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
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 E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
