Sentences with phrase «accurate than estimating»

But geodetic precession had already been confirmed to nearly this level of accuracy in measurements of laser light bouncing off mirrors on the Moon, and the frame - dragging result is no more accurate than an estimate extracted from measurements of the precession of the orbits of the Laser Geodynamics Satellites (LAGEOS) launched in 1976 and 1992.

Not exact matches

Since changes in interest rates impact bond funds differently than bonds and CDs, estimates of price sensitivity may be less accurate the larger the shift in interest rates.

«And they found the following: our original estimate of 20 million dollars was more than accurate.

Boldrini and her colleagues also had access to whole hippocampi, rather than just a few slices, allowing the team to make more accurate estimates of the number of neurons, she says.

The Times of India speculates that more than 40 million tons landed on the coast, but Victor Loveson, a geologist for the Central Mining Research Institute, says it's too early to make an accurate estimate.

Comparing that galaxy's redshift with the distance of the merger as measured by the loudness of the gravitational waves could provide an independent estimate of the rate of cosmic expansion, possibly more accurate than current methods.

The formation, isotope ratio and size of the clumps — less than 50 atoms in diameter — become, in effect, a clock, says Valley, and verify that existing geochronology methods provide reliable and accurate estimates of the sample's age.

Last week, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, whom President Donald Trump appointed to lead the department that oversees the Census Bureau, told a congressional panel that the agency will need to spend a total of $ 15.6 billion, some $ 3.3 billion more than a 2015 estimate, to conduct a «full, fair, and accurate census.»

And the GPS data is about 50 percent more accurate than one hydrologic model used to estimate snowpack in the Sierra Nevada and roughly on par with another one, Argus said.

On the whole, recent VLBI parallax measurements have shown that photometric distance estimates, when available, tend to be considerably more accurate than kinematic estimates.

Since there is a higher than 95 % chance that cluster assignments are accurate (Supplemental File S2), and our validation analysis shows that 90.7 % of the array expression patterns match the RNA analysis results using other techniques (e.g., Q - PCR), we estimate that more than 86 % of the genes in a cluster follow the corresponding average expression profile.

The volunteers wore a wristwatch - like device to track their movement overnight, a technique called actigraphy that's a much more accurate way to measure sleep time than personal estimates.

More accurate numbers are most likely higher than that given that the global problem of osteoarthritis has been under - estimated.

So, Opel also ran the Ampera - e through a test called the Worldwide Harmonized Light - Duty Vehicles Test Procedure, which takes into consideration road characteristics, weather, load influence, and driving styles to produce a much more accurate estimate, giving the Ampera - e a rating of more than 380 km (or 236 miles) of range — almost dead - on to EPA estimates.

Accurate statistics are hard to come by, as many self - published book sales may be made through channels other than those monitored by the data companies, but in the US it was estimated that last year print books made up for 63 % of self - published book sales.

While we argued that recent XOOM sales estimates didn't render the XOOM a flop, if Motorola did in fact build nearly a million tablets and sell less than 100,000 units, «flop» might become an accurate descriptor.

Comparing the APR for each mortgage quote provides a more accurate estimate of mortgage costs than comparing mortgage rates alone.

While the estimate may not be the actual or appraised value of your property, it can be a much more accurate than Zillow to gauge fluctuations and trends in your market which affect your home's value.

For the total equity gain, there is a more accurate way than adding up each year's estimated gains.

Genetic diversity results are a far more accurate assessment of the genetic relationship between dogs than the old - fashioned Coefficients of Inbreeding (COI) estimates.

Your estimate of time to build is accurate, although I had my help from someone who knows more than I do, and it still took that long.

I don't know about the «freakout» claim, but I believe Peter Wadhams» ideas / estimates regarding the loss of arctic sea ice are going to prove to be much more accurate than the IPCC estimates that sea ice will be gone by midcentury.

Of course I can not prove that my choice of a ten - year doubling time for nonlinear response is accurate, but I am confident that it provides a far better estimate than a linear response for the ice sheet component of sea level rise under BAU forcing.

If the modeled results from scenario c (with best possible parameter estimates and counterfactual CO2 assumptions) continue for a sufficient time to be closer to actual data than the modeled results from scenarios a and b (with best possible estimates of parameters and accurate CO2 assumptions), then the model that produced the computed results will have been disconfirmed.

The cross-validation in our paper also suggests that the Dvorak estimates are more accurate than ours, but not that much.

The result is that 70 % is a better estimate than 108 % for the anthropogenic contribution since 1900 (or 1880), but 100 % is probably more accurate for the anthropogenic contribution since 1850.

Notice, for instance, that one account of the consensus (more accurate than Grimes's) holds that «most of the warming in the second half of the twentieth century has been caused by man», and does not exclude the majority of climate sceptics, who typically argue that the IPCC over estimates climate sensitivity.

Thus, a deterministic weather forecast can not be accurate after a period of a few weeks, and the time interval for skillful modern forecasts is only somewhat shorter than the estimate for this theoretical limit.

On present evidence for priors, the Bayesian estimate can not justifiably be said to be more accurate than the MLE.

If the prior distribution of the parameter is accurate, the Bayesian estimate has a smaller mean square error than the maximum likelihood estimate.

Repeat daily or subdaily echosounder surveys provide a much higher degree of spatiotemporal coverage than that achieved via traditional methods, allowing for more accurate ebullitive flux estimates in survey zones (DelSontro et al. 2015).

And «scientists,» in this case, apparently include only those on the low end of climate sensitivity estimates, rather than the more likely to be accurate consensus range.

's 5 W / m2 is even close to accurate, in looking at some calculations I've seen, which show that the difference between the peak solar cycle and the minimum is about.322 W / m2 across the entire planet in terms of irradiance, and this translates into about.2 C in global temp difference on average, then my rough estimate of.1 C in TSI effect in 1998's El Nino versus 2009 - 2010 is an undershoot, but either way it looks like the TSI effect in 1998 is far more than the.01 C that some have suggested would be the level to be even significant.

Unless the prior is accurate, the Bayesian point estimate will have a higher mean square error than the maximum likelihood point estimate.

Thus it is perfectly legitimate that many scientists consider the range to be wider at one or both ends, while some others say that the estimate is already more accurate than presented in AR4.

True, but a new estimate can not be good enough to provide a more accurate estimate when it has larger error bars than the magnitude of the largest existing estimate.

The NSRDB accounts for any recent climate changes and provides more accurate values of solar radiation due to a better model for estimating values (more than 90 percent of the solar radiation data in both data bases are modeled), more measured data including direct normal radiation, improved instrument calibration methods, and rigorous procedures for assessing quality of data.

With the new instrument not adopted unless it was as or more accurate than the old, with a narrower estimate of instrument and systematic error.

For more thought along those lines, read «A Comparison of Bayesian and Frequentist Methods of Estimation» by Francisco J. Samaniego; and his considerations of when Bayesian estimates are less accurate than frequentist estimates (almost always, especially in multiparameter cases or cases without a lot of a priori frequentist information).

In the journal PLoS One, they report specific numbers are more effective than generalities, and it's worthwhile to ask people to give their own estimates before steering them to a more accurate figure.

Fred Pearce, «Admit it: we can't measure our ecological footprint,» November 20, 2013 David Biello, «Forget What You've Heard: Humans Are Not Using More Than One Planet,» November 7, 2013 Ross Pomeroy, «Are Global Footprint Estimates Accurate?»

It has been shown, by sampling globally complete data with realistic temporal and spatial variability, that this extrapolation procedure yields a more accurate estimate of annual global temperature than global integration methods that restrict the area to regions very close to observed points.

Principal amongst these advantages is that we have access to up to date pricing from each region in America and so we can give a far more accurate estimate of cost than other solar calculators.

In hindsight, after the 1990 Amendments, it was the US government's cost estimates that proved to be much more accurate than business estimates.

Also, keep in mind that car insurance estimates online are not always totally accurate, so don't get discouraged if the price initially seems higher than you had expected.

The point of an APS is to provide a more accurate look into your health history, and if it turns out the insurer will have to take on more risk to insure you than it first estimated, then it will need to adjust the policy accordingly.

We recommend what's called a «needs based approach» because it provides a more accurate estimate of your total needs than other methods.

The Treatment Cost Calculator uses actual health insurance claims history data to provide accurate, real - time estimates for more than 300 procedures.

Rather than looking up the average cost of renters insurance, the most accurate way to estimate your renters insurance rates is to get a free, no - obligation renters insurance quote.

This will give you a potentially far more accurate estimate than working with a single rate calculator.