The phrase "a plausible estimate" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a reasonable or believable approximation of a value or quantity in various contexts, such as finance, science, or project planning.
Example: "After analyzing the data, we arrived at a plausible estimate of the project's total cost."
Alternatives: "a reasonable approximation" or "a credible assessment."
In addition to other important factors such as the mean and variance of the primary outcome, a plausible estimate of effect size was a critical consideration in our estimation of sample size for a randomised trial of vaginal progesterone versus placebo to prevent preterm birth in multiple pregnancy [ 27].
To determine a plausible estimate for a test's performance in a specific setting using a new method for selecting studies.
Though no one knows, a plausible estimate is that prices at the upper end of the housing spectrum would fall by 10 to 15percentt.
A plausible estimate by the London School of Economics in 2009 put the number at 618,000, around 70% of whom live in London.
Assuming a band of constant work of formation of hydrates along the three-phase coexistence lines then provided a plausible estimate of the uncertainties in a broad range of thermodynamic conditions.
If this benefit is greater than a plausible estimate of the efficiency savings from the merger, then it should be halted.Upp and awayThis sort of approach, which is already used by Britain's OFT, has its critics.
The number of people who say they were at Woodstock has long since grown beyond any plausible estimate of attendance, and the release of "Soul Power" may lead to a rash of unlikely, passionate claims to have been in Zaire when this monumental and now half-forgotten concert went down.
Nevertheless, we feel that the scores provide a fairly plausible estimate of the degree of knowledge and the socio economic class of an individual.
19 Selecting a power of 90%, and the most plausible estimate of fixation failure rate (30%) and an intermediate value for the minimum clinically important ARR of 20% gives a treatment group size of 82.
But a recently published survey of the various conflicting engineering studies comes up with a plausible compromise estimate: Every unit of energy that goes into making ethanol from corn produces ethanol that yields 1.27 units of energy.
We consider this value to be a plausible central estimate, as it is bounded above by the concentration-response function from the Harvard Six Cities Study [ 26] and below by values from time-series studies.
