Sentence examples for estimating the population from inspiring English sources

In this paper, we propose an empirical log-likelihood estimator for estimating the population mean of a sensitive variable in the presence of an auxiliary variable.

The problem of estimating the population mean using calibration estimators when some observations on the study and auxiliary characteristics are missing from the sample, is considered.

While increasing sequence length improves the estimation of coalescent times, only additional loci can reduce the variability in estimating the population size function from those coalescent times.

"Estimating the population attributable risk for multiple risk factors using case-control data". Am J Epidemiol 122 5): 904-914.

This paper considers the problem of estimating the population total when the population size is unknown.

Pasciuti, D. & Chase-Dunn, C. Estimating the population sizes of cities. http://irows.ucr.edu/research/citemp/estcit/estcit.htm (Institute for Research on World-Systems at University of California, Riverside, CA, USA, 2002).

However, from a public health perspective it is interesting to take the risk assessment one step further by factoring in the extent of exposure; that is, by estimating the population-attributable fraction (PAF).

Treatment and sequelae costs averted by reducing STIs in the population varied substantially as well, given the uncertainty in estimating the population-level benefits of STI treatment of individuals.

Therefore, we opt for a statistical strategy that treats this level of clustering as a nuisance parameter, and thereby estimating the population-averaged effects of the outcomes for subjects sharing the same profile of individual and community-level characteristics.

In this study we combined disease incidence and DALY-based health impact models to develop a methodology for estimating the population-average health costs due to chronic inhalation of a broad suite of air pollutants in U.S. residences.

2 Botswana's HIV/AIDS epidemic is substantial in magnitude and impact; for example, 12% of children in Botswana have been orphaned due to AIDS. 1 While the impact of HIV/AIDS has been clear for all to see, estimating the population-based HIV prevalence rate has been a challenge for a number of years due to an absence of data.