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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Opinions, beliefs and points of view
accepted wisdom
Afrocentric
agnosticism
anti-drug
anti-ideological
bubble
creed
helicopter view
heretical
heretically
hot take
idea
pole
politics
posture
pretension
prism
proposition
recency bias
tick

estimationnoun (GUESS)

[ C or U ]
a guess or calculation about the cost, size, value, etc. of something: （费用、尺寸、价值等的）估计，估测
computer-aided estimations电脑辅助预测
estimation of the cost对费用的估计

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Guesses and assumptions
a shot in the darkidiom
approximation
assumption
bet
conjecturally
conjecture
counterfactual
estimate
misestimate
misestimation
overestimate
overestimation
preception
proposition
re-estimate
rough estimate
sneaking
speculation
speculatively
suspicion

estimation | American Dictionary

estimation
noun[ U ]
us/ˌes·təˈmeɪ·ʃən/
judgment; opinion:
The first novel was successful, whereas the second, in my estimation, was not.

estimation | Business English

estimation
noun
uk /ˌestɪˈmeɪʃən/us
[ S ]
your opinion of someone or something:
in sb's estimationIn my estimation a lot of other banks are going to have the same problem.
[ C ]
a guess about the cost, size, value, etc. of something:
computer-aided estimations
an estimation of the cost

Examples of estimation

estimation
Leaving alone the question as to why this might happen, it seems useful to also produce some precise quantitative estimations of such suspected exaggerations.
Figure 11 depicts the latency estimations as a function of case marking, collapsed over all levels of animacy.
Potential errors in the fish points association give rise to incoherent or divergent length and weight estimations, which can be eliminated by postprocessing filters.
Except in special circumstances where one may be looking for specific microbes, the knowledge gained by viable counts is minimal for biomass estimations.
Anyway, as the elements of the unknown vector are not independent from each other, nonlinear optimisation could be applied to recover more accurate estimations.
Physicians in internal medicine, surgery, and anaesthesiology held significantly shorter estimations of "terminal" than did physicians in general practice, public health, and psychiatry.
Means of estimations were used as land-use values for each square.
The coefficients for ideology have powerful effects across all model estimations, thus indicating extremely robust effects.
Similarly, increasing marker information for each sample (number of independent marker alleles, sample size) also results in better estimations (data not shown).
In all estimations, the inflation rate is also included as another explanatory variable.
On the other hand, as the conventional hospitalization sample was the largest, individual estimations were more accurate than the others.
The cost estimations of the treatment consists of costs for hospitalization, remuneration for the oncologists, and drug prescriptions.
Figure 10 presents the decision latency estimations as a function of learning.
Secondly, in its standard form, this method does not include the influence of tree mortality on the age estimations.
The detailed findings of our administrative costs estimations are discussed below.
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accurate estimation
First, the use of clustering information enables more accurateestimation of the standard errors of the parameters.
empirical estimation
Earlier studies of water demand ignore the peculiar features of the presence of block rates and perform empirical estimation using ex-post calculated average prices.
estimation procedure
The proposed approximate estimationprocedure, based on empirical variances, still performed well for a small number of replicates (five replicates).
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