It sometimes slightly exceeds this value, in fact σ is not an upper bound, but just an estimation of the standard error.
However, a mapping algorithm gives just an estimation of values based on the EQ-5D-3L values; to derive values for the new five-level version, empirical studies are warranted, conducted in representative samples of the general population.
It's all growed up! Estimations of the number of apps seen in the Android Market have often been just that: estimations, but when the Android Dev team tweet out a number, it's a number that means something.
They are just conservative estimations of the corresponding lower or upper bounds under the infinite site model.
Just as the estimation of genetic parameters of individuals requires controlled breeding and replication, estimation of the genetic parameters for social interactions requires variation and replication of the social context.
"That guy did the epitome of bad-values hypertrophy training" — vanity weight lifting, in Dan's estimation, just to get buff.
A few months before retiring from public office in 2002, the House majority leader Dick Armey caused a mini-scandal when he announced during a speech in Florida, "Liberals are, in my estimation, just not bright people".
Effort estimation just "had to be done".
It directly approximates the covariance matrix and is, in this context, used just for state estimation.
