Sentences with phrase «best guess estimates»

Here are my best guess estimates for how much it cost when we installed about 10 units:

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Screenshots are provided at the Proof & Screenshots pages d) The Daily Active Readers and Monthly Active Readers figures are approximate figures based on our best guess estimates.

Daily Active Readers figures and Monthly Active Readers figures are best guess estimates based on figures reported to Books Butterfly by third party companies.

Generally how target date funds work is a fund company will have a set of different funds for an investor to pick from depending on a best guess estimate of when the investor wants to retire.

Not exact matches

In all of these business projections, a good business plan has estimated guesses, explaining assumptions and drivers of how these numbers are expected to change in the future.

The company did quite a bit of research into prices at other services and did its best to estimate potential costs when creating its price structure, but in the end, some of those decisions were simply educated guesses, Nagele says.

My best guess is that one should start with reported GDP growth and subtract from it your best estimate of the amount of debt in each period that should be written down to zero.

There is such uncertainty in forecasting point estimates that past 1 - year in the future a real «no change» forecast is the best guess.

The fact that the same plane is often used for both work and play makes estimates difficult, but a good guess is that 25 % of all general aviation flying is devoted to recreation and sport.

An estimated due date (EDD) is a «best guess» as to when baby might be born based on a conception calculator.

After months of hypotheticals, estimating, researching and best guesses I finally get to put my newborn cloth diaper stash to work!

What they don't tell you is that baby sleep researchers are forced to base their estimates of average sleep requirements on «best guesses» and that baby sleep norms vary greatly from culture to culture, study to study.

But remember, a due date is a best - estimated guess.

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.

«We really don't know what these trends will be after a period of several decades,» he said during a U.N. press conference on the population survey, explaining that the estimates reflect a best guess based on the future resembling the past.

He quoted a 1980 estimate by «experts» of 8 metres, the «best guess» of the IPCC, made in 1990, of 65 centimetres and a current «authoritative estimate» of 20 cm.

The estimate listed in 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is 3.6 to 8.1 degrees F, with a best guess of 5.4 degrees.

Their range of 2.3 - 7.7 % loss, with a best guess of 4 %, is slightly higher than Cornell's estimate of 2.2 - 3.8 % for shale - gas drilling and production.

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 addition, a wide range of forcing schemes designed to span the approximate range of uncertainties associated with anthropogenic climate forcing estimates were generated and implemented in order to assess what differences in effects exist between the «best guess» counter-anthropogenic geoengineering forcing scheme and other plausible schemes.

There is no estimate, even probabilistically, as to the likelihood of any emissions scenario and no best guess.»

While there are lots of ways to estimate your VO2 max, they are all either very complicated, require sophisticated equipment and / or testing protocols or are nothing better than an educated guess.

If I had to guess, I'd estimate that for every person who has been weight training and getting good results, there's probably about 50 other people whose results absolutely suck.

You may need to start off being anal retentive, until you start to become more knowledgeable about nutrition and how to better estimate things, but you never want to completely leave it up to guess work either.

I think from a reasonable guess at price and the figures above, you could get a good estimate.

When asked where the U.S. ranked relative to other countries in math, the average answer made by a nationally representative sample of Americans surveyed by Ednext was 19, a pretty good guess and barely higher than the official estimate offered by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), which reported that the United States stood somewhere between 22 and 28.

When respondents were asked in 2016 to estimate the average teacher salary in their state, their guesses were, on average, 30 % lower than the $ 57,000 average teacher pay reported by the National Education Association, the organization that collects the best available information on this topic.

Of course management isn't omniscient, and the estimates are only their best (conservative) guess as to what the payouts might be; adverse things can and do happen that negatively impact the ability of management to deliver projected payouts.

Provide a best - guess estimate on the current sustainable withdrawal rate based on a some market valuation metrics

I want to consider a best - guess estimate for returns I'll get.

Then, you'll build a budget that includes your rent, estimated utilities, gasoline (calculated based on today's prices, best - guess fuel mileage of the car, and 250 % of the best - guess one - way distance between home and job), food (complete nutrition is not a must, but 2000cal / day is), toiletries, clothing, and anything else you want or need to spend your paycheck or nest egg on.

«Whittling down guesses or extrapolations from limited observations by a factor of 10 or even 100 does not make these estimates any more credible, and the fact that they are the best available data is not sufficient to justify their use when the consequence may be extermination for cats... What I find inconsistent in an otherwise scientific debate about biodiversity is how indictment of cats has been pursued almost in spite of the evidence, and without regard to the differential effects of cats in carefully selected, managed colonies, versus that of free - roaming pets, owned farm cats, or truly feral animals.

Possibly the trickiest part about this was we were totally going off of our best guesses and were in a situation where we didn't have much time to make this decision, so we made a leap of faith hoping our estimates were close to right and we could work within this new budget.

The upper end of estimates may be the size of TotalBiscuit's audience, although I'd be shocked if even half of his population cared very deeply about the topic one way or the other — I'd guess probably 10 - 20K hardcore and the low 6 figures at best.

I can't really see it coming out this year — but i guess we'll have to wait and see as the months pass by (since it's still early days yet)-- once we get more info and footage (of how far into development it is)-- then that's when we can give a good estimate on it's release

These are weather models which have the real world observations assimilated into the solution to provide a «best guess» of the evolution of weather over time (although pre-satellite era estimates (before 1979) are less accurate).

That is, they should be distributions rather than point figures, representing distribution estimates as well as one can guess.

The Independent, in a imperfectly hand drawn graphic, implied the differences would be minor and we concurred, suggesting that the graphic was a «good first guess» at the impact (RP Jr estimated the impact from the Independent's version of the correction to be about a 15 % drop in the 1950 - 2006 trend).

When active surveying was done, and good information for estimates was gathered, it turned out that «best guesses» for the occurance of foodborne illness fell precipitously.

Gavin Schmidt writes, «He (Crichton) also gives us his estimate, ~ 0.8 C for the global warming that will occur over the next century and claims that, since models differ by 400 % in their estimates, his guess is as good as theirs.

Here as with CO2 sensitivity, most of the uncertainty is on the high - side of the best guess, but we are mainly concerned with the best estimate.

There is no estimate, even probabilistically, as to the likelihood of any emissions scenario and no best guess.»

My estimate that, since there is no CO2 signal in any modern temperature / time graph, the value of climate sensitivity is probably indistinguishable from zero, is a much simpler way of doing the estimations, and is probably as good as any other guess.

So I am guessing that the IPCC TTD's (technical top dogs) will figure out a way to down - play / inflate / arm - wave away the best aerosol estimates and to ignore empirical studies which indicate low sensitivity.

Thus, the estimates are educated guesses, at best.

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

If people think models (or Judith or me) give unreliable estimates then aren't they allowed to consider those estimates no better than unquantified guesses?

However, thus far, and in figures 2 and 3, our estimates have been of «best - guess» or «most likely» warming, as defined in § 2c.

My best estimates (guesses, but perhaps better guesses than those of the IPCC because I have no vested interest in the answers) are that the IPCC exaggerates the CO2 radiative forcing (which can not be measured) by around 20 %; that it exaggerates the Planck parameter (which can not be measured) by 20 %; and that it exaggerates the sum of all unamplified feedbacks (which can not be measured) threefold, because, as Lindzen and Choi (2009,, 2011) and Spencer and Braswell (2010, 2011) have demonstrated, feedbacks are somewhat net - negative.