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prob'able er'ror



Statistics.
a quantity formerly used as a measure of variability: equal to 0.6745 times the standard deviation. A normally distributed population has half of its elements within one probable error of the mean.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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