Error Term

Error term may refer to:

  • Errors and residuals in statistics;
  • An error term or error bound in numerical mathematics.

Famous quotes containing the words error and/or term:

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    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term abandonment, to describe the self-surrender of the orator.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)