The phrase "a starting point for estimating" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing initial calculations or assessments in various contexts, such as project planning or budgeting.
Example: "This data serves as a starting point for estimating the overall costs of the project."
Alternatives: "an initial basis for estimating" or "a foundation for estimating".
This dilution of existing shareholders is part of the reason why real dividend growth has been so low, well below GDP growth.As a starting point for estimating the future ERP, this is not encouraging.
Sanyal and Butler (2005) built a number of simulation models as a starting point for estimating EGS reserves on the basis of conditions seen at a desert park in USA, which suggested a recovery factor greater than 40% for EGS.
The Rasch model uses the traditional total score (i.e., the sum of the item ratings) as a starting point for estimating response probabilities.
In this perspective our work may be a starting point for estimating the click time for Muller's ratchet in more general situations and for describing the boundary condition.
Appeltans et al. (2012) compiled WoRMS, the World Register of Marine Species (about 226,000 eukaryotic marine species) and used it as a starting point for estimating how many more species may still be discovered.
Nobody familiar with the issue, however, views the figure of 20,161 deregulated apartments as anything more than a starting point for estimates of apartments that have been removed from rent regulation.
Nonetheless, the LOO standard error is the best estimate of the full model's predictivity for each individual compound in the training set [29], which makes it is a reasonable starting point for estimating a model's predictive reliability for structures occupying nearby points in the descriptor space.
We hypothesized that the 270 ms measured in our previous work represented a valid starting point for estimating the pore duration in this study.
The recent biomonitoring data set developed as part of NHANES 2001 2002 (Blount et al. 2006c) provides a very useful starting point for estimating the population distribution of dietary perchlorate intake.
However, our LC MS method is a relatively facile starting point for estimating the extent of substrate-mediated alkylation levels in more complex samples such as those found in elicited plant proteomes during the course of terpene biosynthesis.
A reason for this might be that the time of HIV diagnosis was defined as the starting point for estimating risk factors for a HZ episode, i.e. t0.
