Sentence examples for made conservative estimates from inspiring English sources

We made conservative estimates of amplification factors, knowing that they are prone to sampling errors in the actual number of initial cells in each sample, in addition to variable efficiency in isolation of total RNA.

We took great care to operationalize our codes and coding process to make conservative estimates of the meaning being made by participants in the study.

For studies that reported only point estimates without corresponding CIs, p-values, or standard errors, or did not report the distribution of data to allow for computation of relative risks and CIs (also for nonoverlapping populations), we made conservative assumptions to estimate RRs and 95% CIs from the data provided on a study-by-study basis.

Cigna has a reputation for keeping investor expectations down by making conservative earnings estimates.

We would also note that the frequency of these four bacteria means that around one fifth of infections co-occurred with other species of inherited bacteria (8 of 44 infected species carry two different bacteria), an estimate of course made conservative by our own restrictive sampling for 'known' symbiont groups.

They made a conservative estimate that those surfaces make-up 1% of the Earth's surface.

Although we made a conservative estimate of ARI by excluding clear nasal discharge from clinical definitions and including only clinically verified episodes of URI and LRI, we still found a high incidence of 17.3 episodes per 100 child weeks at risk in Sisimiut.

"We've made a conservative estimate of a fourfold increase in TV coverage and media coverage, and we think that's very conservative.

The Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) of the International Institute for Sustainable Development has made a conservative estimate that the state has subsidised water to the tune of nearly $300m a year during the last decade.

That's the core reason that leads someone in Estonia or Ukraine to sell the only thing they have left - their bodies, their organs, even their children.' A recent United Nations report made a conservative estimate that there were 700,000 women and children victims of sex trafficking from East to West.

However, we made a conservative estimate and assumed that ρ would be equal to 0.1 and the average cluster size (m) would be equal to 10.