Sentences with phrase «at least a good estimate»

The first step is to take the amount you're going to borrow, or at least a good estimate.

By a queer coincidence, this number (at least the best estimate) is very close to the actual concentration of just CO2 alone (383 ppm).

Not exact matches

At the same time, GoPro represents a potentially good value to investors, according to at least one estimate, by private company data experts SageworkAt the same time, GoPro represents a potentially good value to investors, according to at least one estimate, by private company data experts Sageworkat least one estimate, by private company data experts Sageworks.

With an itchy vagina, your first thought would probably be a yeast infection, and that is a good place to start — after all, an estimated 75 percent of women will get at least one yeast infection in her life, making it far more common than a semen allergy.

According to some estimates, HFT now makes up at least 50 % of all trading in the USA, as well as a substantial portion of trades in the European and Asian markets.

The market for top - flight talent is now so tight that nearly 100 directors of Fortune 250 companies estimate that fewer than four people — including those both inside and outside their company — would be capable of stepping into the CEO role today and running it at least as well as their current CEO, according to a survey by researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Rock Center for Corporate Governanceat Stanford University.

«Human - induced climate change likely increased Harvey's total rainfall around Houston by at least 19 percent, with a best estimate of 37 percent,» Michael Wehner, a co-author on an attribution study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, said at the American Geophysical Union conference in December.

Check Your Withholding: The government estimates that most taxpayers will see a drop in their tax bill when 2019 rolls around, but because the new law has many twists and turns (especially for those who live in high property and income tax states), your best bet is to assume that your tax liability will be at least the same as this year.

The NHS promotes mindfulness as a way of encouraging «good mental wellbeing», and an estimated 30 % of GPs have referred at least one patient to mindfulness training.

Fifty years on seems a good time to reflect on a movement which leading scholar Larry Eskridge estimates saw at least 250,000 people become Christians.

Some researchers estimate that as much as one third of the parenting gap we find between poor - quality and high - quality parenting could be closed by better support to families, 27 which is at least equal to the fraction of the gap that could be closed by changes in preschools, as we saw earlier.

Still, most parents want at least a rough estimate of how long it will take to potty train, and you can probably guess if you know your child well.

It estimates that a vascular check programme would prevent 4,000 people a year from developing diabetes; save 9,500 heart attacks and strokes; and could also detect at least 25,000 cases of diabetes or kidney disease earlier, allowing cases to be better managed and improving outcomes.

The best estimate is that the region contains 100 million objects at least a mile wide.

Now, two evolutionary biologists say they've found a better way to estimate DNA mutation rates, at least for mammals, a result that should give new precision to evolutionary studies.

DOE estimated that by 2013, at least 2 million oil and gas wells in the United States had been hydraulically fractured.

It does indeed contain the 0.64 cents / kWh figure cited by Lomborg, in a table labeled «Estimates and Best Guesses of Damages» with a footnote and accompanying text indicating that the figure is some sort of average of a considerable range of values presented in the report, which extend from at least 8 times smaller to at least 150 times larger.

In other words, assuming the drugs have the same effect, the p - value estimates how likely it is to get a result suggesting A is at least 10 percent better.

A combination of circumstances makes model - based sensitivity estimates of distant times and different climates hard to do, but at least we are getting a good education about it.

By directly comparing the gene expression estimates by these two techniques, using a correlation with TaqMan qRT - PCR as a benchmark, we find RNAseq provides measurements over at least two orders of magnitude greater than the microarray, and thus correlates better with TaqMan values across a large dynamic range.

That is a scary statistic, so I'll follow it up with some good news: Recent population - based estimates show that Alzheimer's could be prevented in at least one of every three potential patients by improving exercise, heart health, intellectual activity, and of course, diet.

In fact, best estimates reveal that during a lifetime, more than 25 % of individuals develop at least one mental or behavioral disorder.

I'd estimate that, between walking, salsa lessons and nights out dancing, I was doing at least 25 hours of cardio a week (as well as four resistance workouts a week).

The Divergent Series: Allegiant is looking a bit better financially (at least, in worldwide gross) as it adds an estimated $ 3.6 million, but with an unreleased (but likely $ 100 million) budget, it should still come up short against its costs.

The researchers have estimated that at least # 150m annually is being spent on unnecessary services and maintenance which could have been avoided if schools very better designed, particularly with less complex mechanical and electrical systems which are difficult to operate and have a short lifespan.

«Overall, our best estimate is that the combined effects of dismissal and reform, separate from the hurricane effect, reduced the 2007 education employment of pre-Katrina New Orleans teachers by at least 16 percentage points,» the study says.

Although the city's records on spending per student generally and in any particular school are difficult to pin down because of all of the accounting intricacies, the best estimate is that it costs at least $ 19,358 per year to educate each student on the public side of the building, or $ 980 more than on the charter side.

At least it'd be better if I can get to know how do they work out the estimate.

And given that nothing, but nothing proves that Sturgeon's Law is an optimistic estimate better than Kindle and Nook self - published books, I can at least rest assured that I won't ever be buying one of yours.

We estimate that you'll have to spend at least $ 10,000 annually at HHonors ™ related properties to make it a better option than the no fee card.

If you want to make sure you are paying the least amount possible in closing cost fees, you should get at least three Good Faith Estimates from mortgage lenders.

To explain: I believe people regularly under - estimate good news, just as much as bad news, at least in the short term.

It is in your best interest to get in contact with at least 2 different contractors to get an estimate on what the repairs would cost.

When you are applying for a mortgage, request loan estimates from at least three lenders before choosing one, so that you can find the best deal.

We estimate that you'll have to spend at least $ 10,000 annually at HHonors ™ related properties to make it a better option than the no fee card.

For instance these days I can't find decent estimates for lifetime Vita sells other than the usual well at least it sold better than the Wii U argument which is a great metric to go by let me tell you.

The painting was purchased by a telephone bidder and well surpassed the estimated sale of at least # 35 (or $ 48.3 million) expected by Sotheby's.

At best, it's estimated that ANWR could provide us with 1.45 million barrels a day (for now, let's forget the Gulf of Mexico, since that would take until at least 2030 to kick in, and that time span surpasses our attention span by hundreds of orders of magnitudeAt best, it's estimated that ANWR could provide us with 1.45 million barrels a day (for now, let's forget the Gulf of Mexico, since that would take until at least 2030 to kick in, and that time span surpasses our attention span by hundreds of orders of magnitudeat least 2030 to kick in, and that time span surpasses our attention span by hundreds of orders of magnitude).

Your attempt to estimate equilibrium climate sensitivity from the 20th C won't work because a) the forcings are not that well known (so the error in your estimate is large), b) the climate is not in equilibrium — you need to account for the uptake of heat in the ocean at least.

The Yamal data is definitely better than most data sets, at least relative to RCS detrending concerns (as is that of Esper et al., 2012), and also better than the Polar Urals, but other critical concerns remain (as they do for virtually all tree ring studies attempting to estimate relative climatic state variables over centuries).

The implication being that the geographical separation of most of the forcings (and CO2 to an extent at least low down in the atmosphere near cities, would allow one to tease out a better estimate for TCR, or in other words to define a local / regional TCR.

The 31.5 year estimate for cumulative solar forcing seems to be a good, at least for now, reference IMO.

Its immediate effects are well documented: the Earth Policy Institute has estimated that it caused at least 35,000 deaths.

Prof Francisco Samaniego (UC Davis) in his book «A comparison of frequentist and Bayesian methods of estimation» makes the point that a «prior» has to be at least sufficiently accurate (beyond a «threshold» of accuracy) in order for the Bayesian estimate to be an improvement over the frequentist estimate («better» in a Bayesian sense that he defines), and has some discussion of when that may be the case.

That team published results a few years ago showing that all AOGCMs they studied mixed heat into the ocean faster than their best estimate of the actual rate, by a factor of several times at least.

And I figure that is pretty good guess, at least until such time as a better estimate is done.

Perhaps The Economist should take a look at the best of the best among climate scientists — notably James Hansen who warns that Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity is at least 3 degrees Celsius and that this estimate is probably conservative.

This was not done, despite there having been, since January 1, 2011, at least 14 new studies and 20 experiments (involving more than 45 researchers) examining the ECS, each lowering the best estimate and tightening the error distribution about that estimate.

If you then have evidence that includes (1) a shift in the central tendency and (2) increasingly frequent observations of events going over x sigma, over some decent sample of space or time or both and based on the best estimated shape of the original distribution, then it is at the very least, reasonable to assume that the former tails have shifted + / - in concert with the rest of the distribution; that is to say, the entire original distribution has shifted.

Industrial Agriculture's Negative Effects The report didn't go into wider - ranging effects of the industrial agriculture dominant in the US, such as loss of biodiversity, fertilizer run - off, etc. (and whether industrial agriculture is really the best method of raising food, the UN doesn't think so, and I suppose that's all a bit beyond the research brief here) but at least corn ethanol fares a bit better in this study than in previous estimates.