The phrase "allowance for error" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the margin of error or the degree of flexibility allowed in a process or calculation.
Example: "In our calculations, we must include an allowance for error to ensure accuracy in our results."
Alternatives: "margin for error" or "buffer for mistakes".
Well, for dementia, we have no idea, because the prevalence figure is given as 7.1% in the over-65s, with no allowance for error at all.
Not a single issuer in J.P. Morgan's EMBI+ index of emerging-market bonds saw spreads widen (chart 2).What began as a legitimate search for higher returns following a collapse in prices in many markets led to valuations that stretched the bounds of credulity and made little or no allowance for error.
Given the 5% allowance for error rate by PAPA, the 2.4% incorrect parentage assignment using 9 microsatellite markers seems to be within the margin allowed by the software.
And this sort of mutual trust, with its give-and-take and allowance for common error, cannot be supplanted by the ever more expensive techniques of arms-length supervision: audits, codes and performance league-tables.
This was based on a 95% confidence level, a ± 10% margin for error, a response distribution of 50% (which requires the largest sample size), and allowance of 10% for non-response and a conservatively estimated design effect of two.
We searched for unique kmers found only in male or female fish, with a minor allowance for sequencing errors (max two individuals).
The program selects sequences that are >80% identical (allowance for sequencing errors and polymorphisms) with the query sequence over >25 amino acid residues.
FixPred selects protein sequences that are >98% identical (allowance for sequencing errors and polymorphisms) with the query sequence over >25 residues, and these sequences are analyzed by the same MisPred tools as the ones that identified the query sequence as being suspicious.
But he should perhaps have made more allowance for Dr. Franklin's error.
Based on preliminary data with an allowance for type I error of 0.05 and a power of 80%, we calculated that a sample size of 51 volunteers was needed for this study.
