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"error bar" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the term when discussing the amount of expected variability of a data set or result, which is often represented as bars extending above and below an average. For example: "The error bars for the experiment showed a 95% confidence interval."
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error bar
noun
A bar used on a graphs to indicate the range of one standard deviation in the result of an experimental measurement.
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The forecast comes with a big error bar, however.
Error bar represents SE.
Error bar indicates standard deviation.
Error bar represents SD. n.s.s
Error bar represents standard error (n = 6).
The error bar is 0.2 cm-1.
Error bar represents SD. ***P < 0.001.
The error bar was estimated at 0.5 kcal/mol.
The error bar is obtained over 20 independent samples.
The error bar represents the variation in the readings.
The error bar reflects the reproducibility for each data point.
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