extrapolation

extrapolate | Business English

extrapolate
verb[ I or T ]
/ɪkˈstræpəleɪt/ukus
to use existing information to discover what is likely to happen or be true in the future:
Speaking about global warming, she said that time periods of 15 and even 30 years are too brief to extrapolate changes in climate patterns.
extrapolate (sth) from sthWe as economists tend to just predict the future by extrapolating from the past.
extrapolate trends/patterns/risks
extrapolate figures/data/numbers

Examples of extrapolate

extrapolate
Transition probabilities were calculated directly from clinical trial data for the first 3 years and then extrapolated to 10 years.
It was difficult to extrapolate information from idiosyncratic studies and apply it to my specific circumstance.
Secondly, our results are restricted only to females and may not extrapolate to male populations.
Caution must be exercised in extrapolating from these observations, since it is easy to over-generalize from the few portraits of working-class life we have.
Can such a practice of clinical ethics be extrapolated into a source for our theory of consensus in the field?
Caution is advised when quantitatively extrapolating the present data to other flows.
All argon peaks were scanned ten times and peak heights extrapolated back to the inlet time to allow for argon build-up and memory effects.
These results suggest that twin studies of substance use are unlikely to be biased and may be safely extrapolated to more typical non-twin family relationships.
If one extrapolates the solutions to t 0, then the wave envelope converges toward the origin as t increases.
Thus, these curves can be used to extrapolate the scattering to infinite dilution.
A thorough understanding of how such constituents change over time would allow us to extrapolate, from fossil evidence, aspects of the original biochemistry.
As a result, extrapolating results from these trials to standard clinical conditions is often complicated.
Repulsion can be dealt with by dilution, increasing ionic strength, and/or extrapolating the data to infinite dilution.
However, two internal constraints can be extrapolated from the claims and observations in the existing literature.
It is unknown whether these results would extrapolate to males or to other ethnic or geographical populations.
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