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estimation
  1. The process of making an estimate.
  2. The amount, extent, position, size, or value reached in an estimate.
  3. Esteem or favourable regard.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The Bench examined Sergeant Henderson's watch and decided that the defendant was wrong in his estimation of its value.”
      “He who reads my heart knows that my estimation of your intellectual and spiritual attainments is greater than that of my own.”
      “This is indeed a difficult question to answer because many projects are novel and there is no direct market that can provide an estimation of the price.”
estimate
  1. A general idea about the value, size, or cost of (something).
  2. (construction and business) A document (or verbal notification) specifying how much a job will probably cost.
  3. An upper limitation on some positive quantity.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “His estimate of Brian's actual height was wide of the mark.”
      “I called up hoping to get an estimate on the costs involved in the repairs.”
      “His estimate of Andrew's integrity dropped a few notches after the latest gaffe.”
estimator
  1. A person who estimates, especially one who estimates costs
  2. (mathematics) A function of a random sample of a population used to estimate some parameter of the whole population
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Compared to the maximum-likelihood estimator under the equiprobable population, this estimator is very efficient.”
      “For huge amounts of input data, the maximum likelihood estimator cannot be evaluated.”
      “In contrast, the likelihood estimator maintains a low standard error across the full range of conditions.”
estimableness
  1. The quality of deserving esteem or regard.
esteemer
esteem
estimand
  1. (statistics) that which is being estimated.
estimability
  1. Capability of being estimated.
esteeme
  1. Obsolete spelling of esteem
estimabilities
  1. plural of estimability
estimations
  1. plural of estimation
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The residuals on full-term lease vehicles are much lower than original estimations made at the beginning of the leases.”
      “The potential for long-distance seed dispersal by longleaf pine was also demonstrated by estimations of seed dispersal into the 75 m plots.”
      “As expected, estimations obtained with 1 million simulations are more accurate than those obtained with 100,000 simulations.”
estimators
  1. plural of estimator
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  3. Examples:
    1. “How can its estimators obtain pricing for the many items they are going to need?”
      “Size change is so covariant among morphological traits in general that separate body parts are often good estimators of change in other parts.”
      “Conversely, cost estimators are based on averages or generalizations that do not take into account the individual management abilities of a farm.”
estimands
  1. plural of estimand
esteemers
estimates
  1. plural of estimate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “These estimates are based on a massive and meticulous use of primary and secondary sources that are well documented in the volume.”
      “However, these studies have not generally had enough participants to provide precise estimates of accuracy.”
      “Hintze gave qualitative estimates of relative species abundances at particular sampling horizons, but did not list total sample sizes.”
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