reliable estimate
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreliableandestimate
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reliable
adjective
uk/rɪˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/us/rɪˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/
Someone or something that is reliable can be trusted or believed because he, she, or it works or behaves well in the way ...
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estimate
noun[C]
uk/ˈes.tɪ.mət/us/ˈes.tə.mət/
a guess of what the size, value, amount, cost, etc. of something ...
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(Definition ofreliableandestimatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We first wanted to know whether this technique leads to areliableestimateof the amount of muscle tissue of individual copepods.
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The ratio 9-11/9-23 is not subject to this distortion, and therefore produces a morereliableestimate.
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While noreliableestimateof the costs of tax non-compliance exist, the problem is significant.
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The number of recordings at each contrast value was too small to allow areliableestimateof the standard deviation for the averaged response.
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After critical appraisal of these studies, we considered 2,116 as the mostreliableestimatefor the cost of a case of neutropenia.
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Analysing data from a number of children will provide areliableestimateof the error rate across those children.
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However, samples size was not sufficient for areliableestimateof species richness in this host species.
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In the present case, however, it is possible to give areliableestimate.
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By subtracting part 0 from the other parts, areliableestimateof the speed of cognitive processes can be made.
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We can give areliableestimateof the cost of solving the resulting linear algebra problems.
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There are enough observations in each group to produce areliableestimateof the probability of an observation.
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Behaviours such as move to position and avoid obstacles need to have areliableestimateof the vehicle position in order to function correctly.
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If the grandparental lines are ordinary domestic breeds, it is not difficult to find areliableestimate of the heritability of most traits from the literature.
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Areliableestimateof the number lost in the evolution of its genome requires testing and mapping genes derived from close relatives, which is not yet feasible.
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A definitive statement to this effect would, however, require areliableestimateof the true species ratio in the area at the time of these studies.
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The temporalfrequency tuning for parallel motion provides an additional estimate, and perhaps a morereliableestimate, of the critical speed at which motion streaks should occur.
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So far, however, it has not been shown whether light traps can provide areliableestimateof biting rates in communities where most people sleep under treated bed nets.
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If we had some means of measuring or inferring the trapped argon composition, it would be possible to derive areliableestimateof the age since eruption.
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Both of these record an insufficient number in the sample earning less than £1.50 per hour to provide areliableestimate.
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