Sentence examples for anecdotal estimates from inspiring English sources

The data collected in this survey are generally anecdotal estimates; it is therefore impossible to draw firm conclusions from them, and specifically they are not useful for showing the incidences of complications and adverse effects.

Of particular concern are anecdotal estimates that less than 5percentt of practicing internists are familiar with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) that issues vaccine recommendations.

It should also be noted that some cost inputs used in the analysis are ten years old and although this is not ideal, in the absence of any other data these are likely to provide better cost estimates than other commonly used options (e.g. anecdotal estimates from clinicians), even when inflated to current values using composite price indices.

Anecdotal studies provide estimates of obesity among children with DS ranging from 18.8 to 31%.

Non-falciparum malaria may be present in Zambia given that P. malariae cases are routinely reported and the anecdotal prevalence is estimated to be approximately 2%.

From those trends as well as anecdotal reports, Dr. Tuttle estimates that at least 15 percent of women who receive a breast cancer diagnosis will have the second, healthy breast removed.

One study reported the use of an anecdotal costing method and estimated hypothetical hospital savings [ 49].

Although other publications have discussed curation errors, they have been anecdotal and have not estimated curation error rates.

Imported cases are possible, but reports are likely to be anecdotal because clinical observations, estimated dates of infection, and duration of patient stay in Saint Elie were congruent and because all genotyped strains were Guianan L. guyanensis (1 ).

Similarly the number of discriminable odors is thought to be only 10,000, although this estimate is largely anecdotal (Gilbert, 2008).

The budget director, Carole E. Stone, acknowledged that those were rough estimates based mostly on anecdotal information.