The estimated number of domestically acquired illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths for each etiology was obtained from published estimates (1 ) or, when not available, by extrapolating from available data.
These incidences were extrapolated from the available data by calculating the known Ontario and Australian incidences as a proportion of the Connecticut rates and applying this proportion to the Connecticut data for the missing years.
For example, these sub-systems will smooth out irregularities that are likely to be due to imperfect sensory data rather than sudden and dramatic alterations in the external environment, or fill-in hores or gaps by extrapolating from the available data in the most plausible way.
Although it is hazardous to extrapolate from the available data to the clinical setting, taking measures to lower vascular stress (e.g. by reducing the physiologic requirements for ventilation and cardiac output) is a logical, but as yet unproven, extension of a lung-protective strategy for life support in ARDS.
For critical care units contributing less than one year of data (but more than six months) in 2008-09, wextrapolateded the number of admissions with severe sepsis per year from available data.
The electricity prize was extrapolated from the data available from [4].
For intervening years, we extrapolated using available data for the nearest years.
This sort of analytics extrapolates from the available data to identify trends and patterns.
We extrapolated available data (2001-10) to 2011 using Poisson regression.
The performance of future heat pumps can be extrapolated from historical data instead of assuming today's best available technology will be put into use without subsequent improvement.
In some cases, this information will be publicly available, while in others it can be extrapolated from public data.
