conservative estimate
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconservativeandestimate
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conservative
adjective
uk/kənˈsɜː.və.tɪv/us/kənˈsɝː.və.t̬ɪv/
not usually liking or trusting change, especially ...
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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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The estimate, when used with realistic values of the branching factors, however, provides aconservativeestimateof how the algorithms compare in their per formance.
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But theirconservativeestimatewas a proportion of 75%.
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In forecasting future theoretical developments, aconservativeestimateis that some progress will be made by importing theoretical advances from neighboring fields.
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The percentage that feed provides aconservativeestimateof the proportion of tsetse that would pick up a lethal dose of insecticide.
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This is aconservativeestimate, as it reflects only past month drug use, not drug use at any point during pregnancy.
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Selecting 100 km gives aconservativeestimateas this area has the thinnest lithosphere and will produce the least lamprophyre on rifting.
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We used aconservativeestimateof 30 fatal cases per year, with a range between a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 90.
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As aconservativeestimate, we assume an initial resistance level of 0.1 for the three pest species considered.
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We chose an initial value of 75 % population susceptibility as aconservativeestimateand varied susceptibility during sensitivity analyses.
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Aconservativeestimateof the possible contribution of foxes to transmission was 9 % compared to 91 % by sympatric domestic dogs.
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This provides aconservativeestimateof dispersal distance for those individuals, which have moved and survived, of about 100 m per month.
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About 70% of the patients apparently suffered earlier psychogenic disturbance (conservativeestimate).
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In our study, we used aconservativeestimateto calculate a safe and effective starting methadone dose.
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Aconservativeestimateof dispersal distance for those individuals which had moved and survived was about 100 m per month.
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We have chosen aconservativeestimateof 1.5 mm per ha.
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The time cost, therefore, is considered to be aconservativeestimateof the patients' opportunity cost of time.
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This is aconservativeestimate, as it ignores mortality.
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This scaling was used to produce aconservativeestimateof line differences.
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This was found to be the case for both a more inclusive, and a moreconservativeestimateof semantic generality.
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