Some articles on estimate, estimates:
... In loose terms this means that a naïve or raw estimate is improved by combining it with other information ... The term relates to the notion that the improved estimate is made closer to the value supplied by the 'other information' than the raw estimate ... Assume that the expected value of the raw estimate is not zero and consider other estimators obtained by multiplying the raw estimate by a certain parameter ...
... The 1995 National Intelligence Estimate on terrorism, prepared by the CIA for President Clinton's Cabinet, warned of the "new breed" of Sunni Islamist terrorist ... Yousef's truck bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, the Estimate warned that "national symbols" such as the White House and Capitol were at risk, as well as ... The Estimate also warned of the vulnerabilities of the US domestic aviation system ...
... Date Source 1 Germany 80,580,000 16.16 0.21 168,000 332 80,327,900 December 31, 2011 Official estimate 2 United Kingdom 64,231,000 12.88 0.73 465,000 95 63,181,775 March 27, 2011 ...
... This is a list of Arab countries by population, primarily based on estimates by the United Nations Population Division ... Rank Country (or dependent territory) July 1, 2012 UN estimate % of pop ... Source 1 Egypt 83,958,000 22.55 1.72 1,445,000 41 79,602,000 January 1, 2011 Official estimate 2 Sudan 45,722,000 12.28 2.44 1,117,000 29 30,894,000 ...
... The table is primarily based on estimates by the United Nations Population Division ... Rank Country (or dependent territory) July 1, 2012 UN estimate % of pop. 12, 2010 ... census 3 Canada 34,675,000 6.27 0.95 329,000 73 35,002,447 October 2012 Official estimate 4 Guatemala 15,138,000 2.74 2.58 391,000 27 14,713,763 2011 Official estimate 5 Cuba 11,249,000 2.04 -0.04 -4,0 ...
More definitions of "estimate":
- (verb): Judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time).
Example: "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds"
Synonyms: gauge, approximate, guess, judge
- (noun): A judgment of the qualities of something or somebody.
Example: "Many factors are involved in any estimate of human life"
Synonyms: estimation
- (noun): The respect with which a person is held.
Synonyms: estimation
- (noun): An approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth.
Example: "An estimate of what it would cost"
Synonyms: estimation, approximation, idea
- (noun): A statement indicating the likely cost of some job.
Example: "He got an estimate from the car repair shop"
Famous quotes containing the word estimate:
“Let man consider what he is in comparison with all existence; let him regard himself as lost in this remote corner of nature; and from the little cell in which he finds himself lodged, I mean the universe, let him estimate at their true value the earth, kingdoms, cities, and himself. What is a man in the infinite?”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“The man possessed of a dollar, feels himself to be not merely one hundred cents richer, but also one hundred cents better, than the man who is penniless; so on through all the gradations of earthly possessions—the estimate of our own moral and political importance swelling always in a ratio exactly proportionate to the growth of our purse.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)