Sentence examples for questionable estimates from inspiring English sources

Even if one accepts the comptroller's questionable estimates of new economic activity, the extra taxes the city could expect would be between $8 million and $11 million, officials at the city's Independent Budget Office said.

A20 SCIENCE/HEALTH Testing Plan Called Flawed The Agriculture Department's new testing plan for mad cow disease is seriously flawed and will result in "questionable estimates" of the prevalence of the disease, according to a draft report by the department's inspector general.

The Agriculture Department's new testing plan for mad cow disease, which calls for testing up to 220,000 cows by the end of 2005, is seriously flawed and will result in "questionable estimates" of the prevalence of the disease in the nation's cattle, according to a draft report by the department's inspector general.

It is shown that pushover analysis with predetermined lateral load pattern provides questionable estimates of inter-story drift.

While this approach is questionable, estimates derived in this way have very small weight, so contribute little to meta-analyses.

Another questionable estimate that received widespread coverage – including in Home Office literature – was of 4.2m cameras in the UK.

Mr. Cuomo included Mr. McCall in his criticism, ridiculing him for certifying a state budget dependent on questionable revenue estimates.

The extent to which this would explain a 2 psi loss in pressure is questionable, as estimates suggested a likely loss in pressure of 1.0 to 1.5 psi, but all of the numbers involved here are in question.

The authors used an oversimplified approach and, sometimes, questionable probability estimates, resulting in biasing their analysis in favour of the intervention (providing empiric anti- Candida therapy) and in favour of micafungin versus fluconazole.

For large for gestational age and for cesarean delivery, results remained inconsistent across studies after excluding HAPO, which makes questionable the estimates of pooled RRs generated for these outcomes (the pooled RRs found were lower and not statistically significant).

Furthermore, it is questionable if estimates of the fixation rate of adaptive substitutions based on comparisons between fixed interspecies differences (dN/ dS) and intraspecific polymorphism (pN/ pS; Fay et al. 2001; Smith and Eyre-Walker 2002 CSACC 2005) will suffer from a comparable inherent problem.