Sentence examples for improper estimates from inspiring English sources

After data analysis of the predicted vs. measured pharmacokinetics parameters, it was found that oral bioavailability (Foral) was underpredicted for compounds with low permeability, suggesting improper estimates of intestinal surface area, colonic absorption and/or lack of intestinal transporter information.

Topological error is usually not considered in divergence time estimation, but potentially could systematically bias age estimates through: (i) incorrect placement of fossil calibrations; and (ii) improper estimation of branch lengths.

The GAO found that "improper payment estimates" reached nearly $125 billion during the last fiscal year a $19 billion rise from the year before mostly because of misplaced generosity to recipients of Medicare, Medicaid and the Earned Income Tax Credit.Here, too, the report's authors offer some handy penny-saving tips.

In fiscal year 2010 alone, Medicare had estimated improper payments of almost $48 billion; this estimate did not include improper payments in its prescription drug benefit program, for which the agency has not yet determined a total amount.

The American Medical Association also raised questions about the statistical methods used by the inspector general to estimate improper payments.

"It's estimated that improper payments cost taxpayers almost $100 billion last year alone," he said.

In previous reports, Ms. Brown estimated that improper payments cost Medicare $23.2 billion in 1996 and $20.3 billion in 1997.

SoundExchange, whose suit accused Sirius XM of improper accounting of royalties, estimated that oldies make up 10 to 15 percent of all the airplay on the satellite service.

A government auditor has estimated that improper allocation of wireless spectrum to favored mobile phone companies might have cost the country nearly $40 billion in revenue, compared to what it might have earned through an auction.

An example of the latter is the classical problem of estimating an improper complex-valued random signal in colored noise with an additive white part addressed in [29].

To allow for arbitrary distributions of growth rates and initial population sizes, we use improper priors for all estimated parameters that give equal prior probabilities to all attainable values of r i and c i (i.e., r i ∈ ℝ+ and c i ∈ ℕ), but the method allows for the implementation of any kind of prior assumptions.