Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A weighing-scale adapted to the estimating of the quantity of material in a gross (or other number) of articles by weighing a single article.
- noun One who estimates or judges.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who estimates or values; a valuer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
estimates , especially one who estimatescosts - noun mathematics A
function of arandom sample of apopulation used to estimate someparameter of the whole population
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)
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Examples
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Law Number VIII: The most unsuccessful four years in the education of a cost-estimator is fifth grade arithmetic.
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However, as far as I can see, the estimator is the ordinal LS estimator, which indeed is optimal under various criteria.
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Ask if your company has this kind of estimator and make sure you take advantage of flexible spending accounts.
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Now, in vS04 estimator which is ICE, calibration period data is used to obtain estimates of and sigmas.
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That includes an "estimator" to determine how many and which packets to transmit and when to send them, resulting in higher throughput.
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In this paper, we prefer to use a maximum likelihood estimator, which is considered the most reliable of usual estimators (see
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jonathan Touboul et al. 2010
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In this paper, we prefer to use a maximum likelihood estimator, which is considered the most reliable of usual estimators (see
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jonathan Touboul et al. 2010
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"estimator" surrogates (say, a set of butterfly species) for "true" surrogates (say, the use of species as the basis for assessing complementarity of places).
Biodiversity Faith, Daniel P. 2007
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More technically, we have estimated a statistical model using the ordered logit estimator with the following controls: age, gender, living in the South, education, marital status, having children, ethnicity (Latino), and race (African American).
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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The estimator is ordered or binary logistic regression, depending on the dependent variable.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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