Sentence examples for makes it difficult to estimate from inspiring English sources

This drawback also makes it difficult to estimate its parameters (it is difficult to derive the maximum likelihood (ML) estimators).

The clandestine nature of the I.R.A. makes it difficult to estimate the amount of its weaponry with accuracy.

Many of the artists are represented by only one piece, which makes it difficult to estimate their potential, but a few others — sculptors in particular — also look promising.

The profession's commitment to privacy makes it difficult to estimate the number of professional butlers, but every staffing agency I spoke to agreed that the People's Republic is now the world's fastest-growing market for their services.

This makes it difficult to estimate battery parameters quickly and accurately from input output cycling data.

This makes it difficult to estimate the true degree of resilience and impedes efforts to design a resilient engineered system.

Finally, control over metabolite concentrations in the cell is limited, so the range of experimental data points may be suboptimally distributed for accurate estimation of all parameters, making it difficult to estimate some parameters of a reaction.

But now a veil of secrecy has descended over the security spending records, making it difficult to estimate even the raw totals.

The variables of location and space make it difficult to estimate the club's eventual cost, according to Joel Wechsler, a real estate broker for Grubb & Ellis who is representing Mr. Pepper.

But those experts have not yet correlated damage estimates from satellite photos with prequake data on population density in different parts of the city, making it difficult to estimate a probable range of casualties.

The diversity of unconventional oil and gas resources, their location and the technologies required to exploit them, make it difficult to estimate how the cost of recovering unconventional oil and gas differs from traditional wells.