Sentence examples for estimates are useful from inspiring English sources

These results show how the QOF registers required as part of the general practice pay for performance scheme in England can be used to estimate smoking prevalence in practice populations and that these estimates are useful when analysing patterns of mortality.

Deterministic methods using higher percentiles of residue levels and/or food consumption estimates are useful, and necessary, in assessing acute exposure to pesticides in foods but their use in a chronic exposure assessment is not warranted.

"Estimates are useful, but we are planning far beyond that," he said.

These estimates are useful in indicating whether or not we should increase the number of imputations.

The nonparametric estimates are useful for assessing the quality of fit of a particular parametric time-to-event model (Lawless 2002).

Clementine estimates are useful for identifying scientific or exploration targets for imaging spectrometer sensors of the next generation that are specifically designed to characterize mineralogy.

While these estimates (where available) are usually not given in units of population rates, so that interpretation of most of these data depends on the model used, these estimates were useful in suggesting the appropriate value ranges for some of the parameters.

MOE estimates were useful as an estimator of risk for various age groups, for percentiles of 'all person' exposure, and for regular eaters of specific commodities (RCEs).

In contrast, characterization of relationships between semen quality and fertility estimates is useful for estimating differences in the fertility of ejaculates from individual boars.

The estimates were useful during the SARS outbreak in raising awareness of the issues surrounding pregnancy and SARS.

The DYCAST risk estimate was useful in years with amplified enzootic transmission, when dead birds were considered the primary WNV surveillance indicator (4, 37 – 37 ).