precise estimate

collocation in English

meaningsofpreciseandestimate

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precise
adjective
uk
/prɪˈsaɪs/us
/prəˈsaɪs/
exact ...
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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 ofpreciseandestimatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprecise estimate

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Apreciseestimateof this quantity is difficult to make, and the various determinations made by various investigators differ by several magnitudes.
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Namely, if no interaction exists between center and treatment effect, the data can be pooled, thereby giving a morepreciseestimateof treatment effect.
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The search for somepreciseestimateof the effect of any given variable may, in the end, be illusory.
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This measure is not apreciseestimateof the incidence of low birth weight.
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This can facilitate both apreciseestimateof the outcome and a measure of its dispersion.
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It is, therefore, not possible to derive apreciseestimatefor the likelihood of neonatal survival in fetuses with an antenatally diagnosed myelomeningocele.
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In summary, clinical trials frequently feature an explanatory design geared to give apreciseestimateof small changes in treatment effect.
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Informed traders have a morepreciseestimateof the terminal dividend and uninformed traders do not pay the cost of the information.
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Future studies in which both theta and gamma are measured simultaneously will allow a morepreciseestimate.
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The supernatants were diluted twice or up to 10 times for apreciseestimateof cytokine concentration.
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Only if one can make such precise corrections can one come to apreciseestimateof the eligible population.
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One of the problems in this is a very wide spread of estimates of the casualties in a particular war, making anypreciseestimatevery suspect.
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A precise calculation would require apreciseestimateof the number of people reaching voting age, which is not possible as the census is classified in five-year-interval age groups.
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But most importantly, a mean also assumes the same percentage for all houses without taking into account the other, variable-specific, information which might bring about a morepreciseestimate.
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In theory, a measure of costs should produce a morepreciseestimateof resource use than charges, yet costs suffer from some of the same potential biases as charges.
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Since this will depend upon various unforeseeable factors, for example, decisions by individual employers, it is not possible to make apreciseestimate.
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It is not possible to give apreciseestimate; this will depend on the progress made in the flight development programme.
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I am unable to give apreciseestimateas to the proportion of the total revenue which will fall under each head.
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