Examples of error bar in a Sentence
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Type Ia surveys continue to fill the Hubble diagram with more and more data points, and those data points are squeezing within more and more compact error bars.
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Richard Panek, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
That’s a key point because fault protection to prevent damage usually has larger error bars.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 July 2019
Even with thousands of voids, the study’s error bars are still too large to say anything conclusive.
—Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 25 July 2023
However, the error bar is big.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
The wider the horizontal line, the bigger the error bar.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 9 Apr. 2022
The result was a specific prediction, relying on the contributions of many theorists, with a minuscule error bar that made a clear experimental target.
—Robert P. Crease, Scientific American, 2 May 2021
The category estimates in the methane emissions ledger have large enough error bars on them that bumping some up and others down could accommodate this revision.
—Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2020
Every time the White House releases a COVID-19 model, we will be tempted to drown ourselves in endless discussions about the error bars, the clarity around the parameters, the wide range of outcomes, and the applicability of the underlying data.
—Zeynep Tufekci, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2020
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Richard Panek, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
That’s a key point because fault protection to prevent damage usually has larger error bars.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 July 2019
Even with thousands of voids, the study’s error bars are still too large to say anything conclusive.
—Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 25 July 2023
However, the error bar is big.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
The wider the horizontal line, the bigger the error bar.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 9 Apr. 2022
The result was a specific prediction, relying on the contributions of many theorists, with a minuscule error bar that made a clear experimental target.
—Robert P. Crease, Scientific American, 2 May 2021
The category estimates in the methane emissions ledger have large enough error bars on them that bumping some up and others down could accommodate this revision.
—Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2020
Every time the White House releases a COVID-19 model, we will be tempted to drown ourselves in endless discussions about the error bars, the clarity around the parameters, the wide range of outcomes, and the applicability of the underlying data.
—Zeynep Tufekci, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
1968, in the meaning defined above
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“Error bar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/error%20bar. Accessed 28 Nov. 2023.
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