Sentence examples for vague estimation from inspiring English sources

First is the maxim that "you can't manage what you don't measure". Enterprises regularly invest in data collection, management and access technologies, resources and projects with only a vague estimation of the economic benefit this information will deliver.

The report, recently filed by Sgt Aaron Barnes, includes spurious and badly sourced claims, such as a vague estimation that 80% of the club "appeared to be under the influence of drugs" based on little more than eye-witness accounts.

However, recent population numbers are vague estimations at best.

At what point, he asked, did a cyber attack constitute an act of war under international law?" When the defense secretary finally received a response — vague and evasive, in his estimation — almost two full years had passed.

For lambda, WinBugs 1.4.2 was used with vague prior to distributions for estimation of parameters (i.e., lambda and odds ratio).

Traditionally used cost estimation models cannot utilize such vague yet important information in their models.

When using a Bayesian approach, the specification of prior probability distributions for model parameters is required, and in this instance we selected priors that were vague to induce little bias in parameter estimation.

Moreover in some publications the estimation methods are explained in very vague terms thereby making a duplication of the results almost impossible.

Vague descriptors such as "damage assessment" or the "estimation of adverse consequences" are preferred and explicit adaptations are not detailed.

The MAP terminology originates from Bayesian inference, where the posterior mode is equal to the maximum likelihood estimate when the prior density is vague and uniform, see, e.g., Rabe-Hesketh and Skrondal (2009) who discuss the estimation of random effects in a generalised linear mixed-effects model.

The platform, which by the city's estimation is 20 feet by 30 feet, vaguely resembles a ship, with its "prow" pointing toward the lawn.