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:
“The next work of Carlyle will be entitled Bow-Wow, and the title-page will have a motto from the opening chapter of the Koran: There is no error in this Book.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091845)
“There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)