sample estimate

collocation in English

meaningsofsampleandestimate

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sample
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsɑːm.pəl/us
/ˈsæm.pəl/
a small amount of something that shows you what the rest is or should ...
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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 ofsampleandestimatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We simply assume that the sample mean and thesampleestimateof burstiness are the same as the theoretical values.
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For instance, thesampleestimateof the jute crop was 2.6% above the official estimate in 1941 and 52.6% above it in 1946.
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Thesampleestimatewas 71,866.333 baptisms per year over this period giving a ratio of one registered baptism for every 28.35 persons.
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Confidence intervals allow statisticians to express how closely thesampleestimatematches the true value in the whole population.
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Quenouille invented this method with the intention of reducing the bias of thesampleestimate.
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Hence, it is not possible, using sample estimates, to try to gauge whether the population variance is close to infinite.
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Some others of the standard estimates associated with the normal distribution are also inadmissible: for example, thesampleestimateof the variance when the population mean and variance are unknown.
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Second, we are comparing sample moments, and the standard errors on the sample estimates from the data may be quite large. 14.
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The observed variability in sample estimates of effect size is partly due to variability in the underlying population parameters and partly due to sampling error.
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Now our goal is to compute optimal sample estimates of these fixed and random effects based on the characteristics of our empirical data.
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A randomisation test of the null hypothesis that two cladograms are sample estimates of a parametric phylogenetic tree.
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For each model, 1700 observations were simulated and sample estimates of several moments of consumptions and incomes were computed using the last 1600 of these observations.
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The percentage standard errors indicate the reliability of the survey sample estimates.
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