initial estimate

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initial
adjective[before noun]
uk /ɪˈnɪʃ.əl/ us /ɪˈnɪʃ.əl/
of or at ...
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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 initialestimate need not be very accurate, as explained above.
And this a posteriori estimate becomes the initialestimate for the next cycle.
The result of this depends on the model parameters and the initialestimate for the solution.
And (2) by choosing five fixed contrast values around the initialestimate to obtain a more reliable contrast response function near the threshold.
However, many of these solutions require high quality images and a good initialestimate of where you are and what you are looking at.
Convergence properties are highly dependent upon the quality of the initialestimate of the solution vector.
If the parameters are such that no cyclic gait exists or if the initialestimate is poor, then the solution will diverge.
This observation means that the quality of the initialestimate is not always guaranteed in this kind of real application.
The transformation is then corrected iteratively starting from the initialestimate of the location in a minimisation process, such as the least-squares method.
The resulting final value usually does not deviate much from the initialestimate.
In addition, this method can only converge towards the correct solution in the premise that a good initialestimate of the true solution and the algorithm is computationally intensive.
Assuming that only 17% of ovipositions result in successful parasitism, our initialestimate of 71% parasitism of eggs in an egg batch would be reduced to 12%.
However, the disparity estimates at the output level of the model could serve as a good initial estimate for an algorithm that smoothed and segmented surfaces in depth.
A more accurate initialestimate of cost would have eliminated or reduced the need for supplementals, creating more of an image of predictability and stability in program spending.
Convergence errors are important in the corrector step only, since those occurring in the predictor steps - initialestimate and integration - are irrelevant when the corrector step converges.
A very broad initialestimate of the costs of restoration suggests a figure in the range £30 to £40 million depending on the form of restoration chosen.
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I understand that one project cost double the initialestimate because of frequent interruptions to work when annual funds were exhausted.
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