For a start, the media could ignore any news release that mentioned the words "probable error."

I don't know what the percentage of probable error would be in this case, but the magnitude is striking.

Before this deviations exceeding three times the probable error were considered significant.

The term probable error has different meanings in different contexts.

For a symmetrical distribution the probable error is half the interquartile range.

Any violent necessity is usually the result of something having gone wrong, a probable error of judgment.

The jobless rate was down a hair to 6.7 percent in September (well within the reach of probable error.)

Some of the ancient sequences obtained have highly probable errors, and proper control to avoid contamination.

"Well, there's a significant probable error," he admitted.

The probable error is computed from the observations made, and is used to express their degree of accuracy.

Chapter 8 also examines a "probable error" by Wallace "that the difficulty arising from population is at a great distance."

The mathematical theories of probability, chance, and probable error are complicated and abstruse.

"Two sevenths of our force, with a probable error of one in seven," replied the younger Vorkul.

There was no way to measure it, he told me, and the probable errors were larger than the infinitesimal values he was working with.

One use of the term probable error in statistics is as the name for the scale parameter of the Cauchy distribution.

The implication would be that nearly all measurement would be in the range defined by this version of probable error.

They speak to us in tongues - of probabilities, sampling techniques, growth patterns and percentages of probable error.

In statistics, the probable error of a quantity is a value describing the probability distribution of that quantity.

The blindfold appears in 1800: a probable error of a copyist or a deliberate "error" in protest.

The upper quartile of a standard normal distribution lies between 0.66 and 0.67 its probable error is approximately 2/3 of a standard deviation.

Handheld GPS receivers are often used to get within a few yards probable error of a mark that has adjusted coordinates.

The emergence of the code is governed by the topology defined by the probable errors and is related to the map coloring problem.

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

This specifies the probable error γ as being fixed a multiple of the standard deviation, σ, where the multiplying factor derives from the normal distribution.

Malthus criticises David Hume for a "probable error" in his "criteria that he proposes as assisting in an estimate of population."