Sentence examples for estimated rather than from inspiring English sources

Lacking a better name, we refer to these as 'Horvitz-Thompson (HT) type' estimators [e.g. Borchers & Burnham (2004, p. 10), note that, strictly, all forms of estimators derived from equation (2) might be seen as such] in the sense that the probability of including a sampling unit in the sample is estimated rather than known as in conventional HT estimators (Horvitz & Thompson, 1952).

John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, estimated rather than counted the population, explaining in a letter that "David's example stickes somewhat with us".

This is when you owe money to your gas and electricity supplier, often because bills are estimated rather than actual or when direct debit payments have not altered despite the suppliers' price hikes.

WHAT THEY TALKED ABOUT The usual at these get-togethers: smokers catching fire; the practicality of raising pigs on a roof; the ostensible price-per-pound of pork raised in Manhattan rather than the country (about $30, they estimated, rather than $2).

However, due to technical and economic reasons, this variable is often estimated rather than directly measured.

Optimal model shows appropriate results that can be estimated rather than measured, thereby reducing the testing time and cost.

As to estimating rather than computing precise answers, I hope none of these students plan to be engineers.

Instead, they told me, they would continue with their diets while looking forward to estimating, rather than counting, their calories.

Much of the published research, however, has relied on grouped radiation dose estimates rather than individual estimates of radiation exposure.

Statistical heterogeneity reflects the between trial variance of meta-analytic intervention effect estimates rather than the play of chance [ 76].

The focus of this paper is on how a plausible biological assumption could impact on low-dose risk estimates, rather than on the risk estimate per se.