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noun Statistics.
an error that has a random distribution and can be attributed to chance.
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Compare systematic error.
Origin of random error
First recorded in 1935–40
Words nearby random error
Randolph, random, random access, random-access memory, random coil, random error, randomization, randomize, random line, randomly, random number
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How to use random error in a sentence
Even the new delta variant discovered to be sweeping through the country was not some terrible random error.
What went so wrong with covid in India? Everything.|Sonia Faleiro|July 5, 2021|MIT Technology ReviewThe more copies it makes, the greater the likelihood that random errors, or mutations, will crop up.
Five reasons why you don’t need to panic about coronavirus variants|Cassandra Willyard|May 13, 2021|MIT Technology ReviewWhen used with various methods of plotting and dissecting the measurements, data points representing Cepheids and other special stars fall neatly along straight lines, with very little of the “scatter” that would indicate random error.
Astronomers Get Their Wish, and a Cosmic Crisis Gets Worse|Natalie Wolchover|December 17, 2020|Quanta MagazineHow The Post describes differences in the averagePoll averages can reduce random error that occurs in every survey, but they are far from precise instruments.
How The Washington Post’s polling average works|Scott Clement, Emily Guskin|October 16, 2020|Washington Post