probable error
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It was a moderately complicated equation, and the computation of the probable error was especially tricky.
From Talents, Incorporated by Murray Leinster
The law has therefore done much service in indicating probable error.
From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson
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 Ellsworth Huntington
When the rainfall of three seasons is taken into account the coefficient rises to +0.570, or 8.7 times the probable error, while with four years of rainfall the coefficient begins to fall off.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington
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 Ellsworth Huntington
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