Sentence examples for more objective estimate from inspiring English sources

Although remote sensing methods for measuring plant litter cover provide both a wider area of coverage and a more objective estimate of the spatial variability of litter than manual methods of quantifying the nongreen vegetation landscape components (e.g., litter or soil percent cover), it has been difficult to assess the efficiency of detecting partial litter cover over different soil types.

This provides a more objective estimate of the actual costs of chronic conditions and any interventions.

As human analysts using the technique lead to subjective biases, efforts have been made to make more objective estimates using computer programs, which have been aided by higher-resolution satellite imagery and more powerful computers.

We have used the number of completed races and finishing time in a long-distance skiing competition as more objective estimates of physical exercise.

Self-reported physical activity tends to result in an overestimation of levels of activity and different activity patterns compared to more objective estimates [ 57].

Being independent of the errors associated with dietary questionnaires, their use provides more objective estimates of exposure that can be used to validate measurements of dietary intake.

Developing, validating and implementing prognostic models are important as this provides clinicians with more objective estimates of the probability of a disease course (i.e. BPD), as a supplement to other relevant clinical information [ 8- 11].

The Quantile-Quantile plot (Q-Q plot) provides a good method to distinguish different populations and to identify the background, anomalous values and extra outliers) [16], which is more objective to estimate statistically the anomaly threshold than the others [14].

But then you have to reckon with more objective external estimates that the membership might be just 50,000, while one assumes that the book sales are inflated by deliberate bulk-buying by church members.

It is shown that this approach results in better and more objective parameter estimates in these kinetic models.

Whilst valid BMIs were obtained, self-reported physical activity levels may be less reliable than more objective based estimates, such as those based on accelerometry or heart rate, although moderate levels of correlation are generally reported [ 53].