"preliminary guess" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used in situations where someone is making a first or initial estimate or prediction based on limited information or without complete certainty. Example: "Before conducting any further research, the scientist made a preliminary guess about the potential outcome of the experiment."
So the eight events together give a preliminary guess about how much of the dark matter that the Milky Way seems to need could be in MACHOs.
The solution to a transfer which minimizes the square of the thrust magnitude is used as a preliminary guess for the minimum fuel problem, thus allowing for faster convergence to a wider range of problems.
The designs presented so far in the literature are local optimal designs, which depend sensitively on a preliminary guess of the unknown parameters, and are for this reason in many cases not robust with respect to their misspecification.
This is the cell that will contain the goal seeking answer and it must start with a preliminary guess.
However, much of the initial media excitement about a supposed Eblaite connections with the Bible, based on preliminary guesses and speculations by Pettinato and others, is now widely deplored as "exceptional and unsubstantiated claims" and "great amounts of disinformation that leaked to the public".
The limited evidence that already exists makes it easy to guess preliminary answers to the following critical questions one may ask about EvoSysBio.
It would be foolish to guess, but preliminary signs, at least, seem promising.
Preliminary budgets are built on best guesses, and the mayor and the City Council have until July to negotiate a final plan.
The calculations were based on data from ground tests on the shuttle boosters and some gathered during shuttle flights, as well as best guesses based on the preliminary design of Orion.
These relations are not intended for replacing more sophisticated computing codes (Monte-Carlo or convolution models), but are suitable for first-guess performance prediction and preliminary system engineering and design.
Firstly, shape-based approaches and genetic algorithm (GA) are adopted to perform preliminary design, which provides a reasonable initial guess for subsequent accurate optimization.
