Sentences with phrase «reliable as the estimated»

Not exact matches

Statistics Canada admits its estimates on the underground economy «are not as accurate or reliable as other estimates in the national accounts.»

Provisions are recognized when the Group has a present obligation (legal or constructive) as a result of a past event, it is probable that an outflow of resources embodying economic benefits will be required to settle the obligation and a reliable estimate can be made of the amount of the obligation.

US Treasury yields which have been in the focus in the last days are slightly lower today, especially regarding the longer end of the curve, as core durable goods orders came in much lower than expected, even as the less reliable headline number beat the consensus estimate.

Before 2004, charitable drivers could look at a reliable source, such as the Kelley Blue Book, to find a car's estimated value and deduct that amount on their tax return.

While the earnings used are just an estimate and are not as reliable as current earnings data, there is still benefit in estimated P / E analysis.

As a result, the most historically reliable valuation measures now suggest that the S&P 500 will experience a net loss over the coming decade, while including broader (if slightly less reliable) measures results in projected S&P 500 10 - year annual nominal total returns of about 1.4 % annually (see Ockham's Razor and the Market Cycle for the arithmetic behind these estimates).

This does not mean that such discussions have accomplished nothing, but it does mean that no exact and reliable estimate of what they have accomplished (though it is, I believe, a great deal) is possible until we have granted full «belligerent rights» to second - type theism, as a no less qualified contender than either of the others.

But PPH rates are STILL not as reliable as many other measures because they are estimates.

As such, are there reliable estimates of what the amount of population of people that have only one broadband ISP (even if alternatives aren't cable companies)?

Long Island school districts lack a reliable funding stream for public pre-K and serve less than one - third of an estimated 28,000 eligible 4 - year - old children, even as support grows for a universal program available to all children.

Such an estimate would not be reliable, as the requirement for voters to vote at their designated polling station was removed in the last hours before the referendum began.

The report is an estimate of how much each district will get in state aid when the budget is adopted, and it is seen as a reliable indicator to plan local district budgets.

«I'm very worried where the money will come from next year,» Meyers said.In response to concerns, Legislator Grant, who voted for the budget, explained a steadily strengthening market made current revenue estimates reliable, particularly with new business ventures such as the Shops at Nanuet, and that a no - vote was effectively a vote against the best possible option.

But those estimates aren't reliable, as DNA isn't a good record of population size, says Allentoft.

«However, for a reliable estimate,» they write, «we need to learn more about background noise in the wild as well as the aging of fish - generated trails under natural conditions.»

So far, officials with U.S. ITER have not been able to produce a baseline cost estimate and schedule in large measure, because the ITER project as a whole does not have a reliable schedule.

And last month, the Government Accountability Office found that, thanks to the lack of a credible schedule for the project as a whole, even those estimates are not reliable.

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However, uranium - thorium dating provides much more reliable results than methods such as radiocarbon dating, which can give false age estimates.

Since the two most reliable estimates based on cloned material vary from 11,000 to about 13,000 transcription units, we take 12,000 as a working figure for the number of protein coding genes in D. melanogaster.

You might want to take a look at the research by Kapp and Defelice (2009) and their breakdown, but as Portny et al, (2008) claim such estimates are not 100 % reliable.

As mentioned above, it is good practice to have 6 questions per standard or learning target so that you get a more accurate and reliable estimate of the students» prior knowledge.

With such data, it is possible to provide reliable estimates that separate the effects of the pre-k program from what would have happened without the program, due to the experiences the children would have otherwise had as they aged.

If you're selling your book as commuter fiction or lunchtime fiction, for example, you need a reliable estimate for how long it will take to read your book.

Another important limitation of both YTM and current yield is that these calculations are meant as estimates and are not necessarily reliable.

With reliable measures of value, business and society can prosper as better estimates and projections can be made and transactions can be made more confidently.

As many already know, this approximation is not reliable at estimating infrequent events.

Over the years, I've seen all sorts of guidelines and estimates for how much of their nest egg retirees ought to devote to immediate annuities that turn savings into reliable lifetime income, with some suggestions as low as 25 % and others upwards of 80 % or more.

And home equity lines - a source of college borrowings for as many as a third of parents, estimates James Boyle, president of College Parents of America - also are going to be less reliable this year.

``... the ecological and conservation significance of these kill tallies is difficult to contextualise, because (1) there are no reliable estimates of the total population of birds in Australia; (2) predation may fall disproportionately on some bird species; (3) some bird species may be able to sustain high mortality rates and maintain viable populations but others may not; and (4) as demonstrated here, there is substantial spatial variation in the numbers and proportion of birds killed across Australia.»

Because actual bodyweight is not a reliable guide to whether or not a puppy is too thin or too fat, you need another way of estimating whether or not your puppy is growing as he should.

Director of the Smithsonian Institute Migratory Bird Center Peter Marra points out reliable estimates of unconfined cat populations are as difficult to formulate as, well, herding cats.

[Response: Unfortunately, you seem to have conveniently forgotten that Keigwin (and Pickart) published a paper in Science just a few years later in 1999 pointing that the appparent cooling (actually, the oxygen isotopic signal in question isn't entirely temperature, it is salinity as well, so the quantative 1 deg cooling estimate you cite is not actually reliable) in the Sargasso Sea is diametrically opposed by a substantial warming at the same time in the Laurentian Fan region of the North Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland.

In addition, there are also a variety of estimates of CO2 concentration that go back as far as 500 million years, but unfortunately such data are very scattered and do not appear to be very reliable.

I regard the paleo estimates as less reliable than instrumental or climate models, for a variety of reasons.

A policymaker will take this as meaning that sea level rise is probably going to be less than a meter even if CO2 increases to 936 ppm, in other words, policymakers will take this «objective stuff» as serious, reliable estimates of what to expect.

In their 2008 JGR paper, Gregory and Forster focused on transient climate sensitivity (TCR, representing the climate response to 1 % annual CO2 increases up to a CO2 doubling) as a more reliable indicator of the climate response to CO2 than the more uncertain climate sensitivity estimates.

The WEC 2010 estimates I cited remain the most reliable, as they are generally corroborated by independent IEA and BGR estimates.

For the first six decades to 1720 the figures are printed in italics as an indication that they must be considered less reliable, based as they are on extrapolation from the results of readings of highly imperfect instruments in uncertain exposures at a considerable distance, generally in south - east England; or on estimates based on interpretations of daily observations of wind and weather.

As a result, the number of acres covered by monarchs and counts of monarch - filled trees are thought to provide reliable estimates of colony size.

One key point is whether the simple method you've used here provides a reliable estimate of ECS, which is defined as the long - term change in global mean temperature for a doubling of the CO2 concentration, once the temperature has reached equilibrium.

State all critical assumptions used to prepare the budget, but don't lean on these as a substitute for arriving at reasonably reliable estimates.

To do this is to seek help from statistics such as the reliable actuarial tables to estimate the risk that a driver faces when he's on the road.

Disclaimer: the figures above should not be viewed as reliable auto insurance estimates.

As the information about income is used by the Norwegian government to estimate taxation, it is considered reliable, precise, and of high quality.

Additionally, as our dependent variable is the slope of the relationship between perceived control, dependent interpersonal stress, and depressive symptoms, multiple waves of observations enables a more reliable estimate of the slope.

Standardised diagnostic interviews are seen as the best way to achieve reliable prevalence estimates for mental disorders in different populations.

For the period 2001 — 05, among the residents of Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory (jurisdictions where the data is deemed reliable), deaths recorded as being of an Indigenous person accounted for 3.2 % of all deaths, higher than their presence as a percentage of the total population (as noted, estimated at 2.5 %).

I also have access to the most reliable valuation model in the nation and can give you an estimate as we speak.»

As discussed above, the Bureau is unaware of any data that can provide reliable market - wide estimates of the prevalence of changes between early TILA disclosures and RESPA GFEs and final loan terms and closing costs.