Sentence examples for modest estimation from inspiring English sources

The task force preparing the new manual could adopt a more cautious and modest estimation of the reach of psychiatry and its appropriate grasp.

Meanwhile, "The Female Persuasion" is being promoted as a major literary event, anointed "a feminist blockbuster" (by Kirkus) and "this era's Great American Novel" (in the modest estimation of its publisher).

The number of k-means clusters was set at 10 as a modest estimation of the diversity present within the data.

When all trials are combined there is a modest estimated 13% reduction by both the two stage method (RR=0.87, 95% CI 0.68 1.11) and the simultaneous estimation method (RR=0.87, 95% CI 0.68 1.10), with P=0.2 in both cases.

Another explanation could be that doctors prefer to be modest in their estimation and more critical of their skills than patients, for fear of being disappointed.

In addition to modest, at best, estimations of significance, EMSA bands I and II did not distinctly resolve on autoradiographs in many variants we studied, including wildtype.

OLS estimation reveals modest effects of income, stronger effects of maternal education relative to paternal, and stronger effects on sons than daughters.

In particular, we have shown for the pykF example the modest impact on parameter estimation for an underlying MRL model at a 20% uncertainty in enzyme level.

As a result, underestimation of lifetime number of cigarettes smoked per day due to over-reporting of smoking early in life would be expected to make only a modest contribution to mis-estimation of the risk and that mis-estimation should largely be absorbed by the constant parameter used to adjust for healthy populations (α1), since the effect would be approximated by a constant.

The eccentric Stein was not modest in her self-estimation: "Einstein was the creative philosophic mind of the century, and I have been the creative literary mind of the century".

Furthermore, the best performing heuristics in Table 3 only offer a modest improvement on the estimations of external commuting developed with simpler heuristics (Table 1), and no improvement when internal commuting is considered.