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MR. DINES'S question (NATURE, August 12, p. 644) as to the degree of significance to be attached to the amplitudes of waves of given period found in short series of observations and the likelihood of their permanence as the series is extended brings home again the reflection that whilst probable errors are easily found where the experience is large and they are least wanted, their determination from a limited experience where they would be most useful is largely hypothetical.
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SOPER, H. The Probable Error of the Amplitudes in a Fourier Series obtained from a Given Set of Observations. Nature 96, 32–33 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096032a0
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