Both telephone polls had a statistical margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Critics of the system claim the system will slow down the game and that the statistical margin of error is too large.

All these were within statistical margins of sampling error.

Moreover, Mr. Carroll pointed out that the results had large statistical margins of error.

Because of the difficulties associated with radiocarbon dating, each new date is given a statistical margin of error.

The survey had a statistical margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.

But in an election this close, any count would clearly be within a statistical margin of counting error that make any numbers suspect.

Some commentators have criticised the system's 3.6 mm statistical margin of error as too large.

They said the statistical margin of error in the results was no greater than 1 percentage point.

The game, as it turned out, took the full 60 minutes to provide the barest of statistical margins, a 3-2 victory for the Canadiens.