They choose the domain in which to process a signal by making an informed guess ( or by trying different possibilities ) as to which domain best represents the essential characteristics of the signal.

Griffith's best guess was that A: T and G: C were attractive pairs.

But the task is hopeless in principle — every representation ignores something about the world — hence the best we can do is start with a good guess.

Until recently, triage results, whether performed by a paramedic or anyone else, were frequently a matter of the ' best guess ', as opposed to any real or meaningful assessment.

impossible to say who wrote the Zinoviev Letter " though her best guess was that it was commissioned by White Russian intelligence circles from forgers in Berlin or the Baltic states, most likely in Riga.

" Replacing it with " more ordinary analyses ," he noted that the best dowser was on average 4 millimeters out of 10 meters closer to a mid-line guess, an advantage of 0. 0004 %, and that the five other " good " dowsers were on average farther than a mid-line guess.

After each slide, subjects had to state their best guess of what the object was.

It is important to realize that " bash it out " is not a totally random act but a best guess based on logical deductions, observation and experience.

The size of Esen's army is unknown but a best guess puts it at some 20, 000 men.

Rational expectations theory defines this kind of expectations as being identical to the best guess of the future ( the optimal forecast ) that uses all available information.

They would praise as clever, whoever could best guess which shadow would come next, as someone who understood the nature of the world, and the whole of their society would depend on the shadows on the wall.

The best guess is Peterson flew directly into the blizzard, lost visual reference and accidentally flew down instead of up.

I guess everything happens for the best.

In statistics, point estimation involves the use of sample data to calculate a single value ( known as a statistic ) which is to serve as a " best guess " or " best estimate " of an unknown ( fixed or random ) population parameter.

Making his best guess as to this speed for the 767, he flew the aircraft at.

Programs might apply heuristics to guess at the structure and do their best, but this can easily fail.

A take-home baby assessment can provide a best guess estimate compared with women who have succeeded with in vitro fertilization, based on variables such as maternal age, duration of infertility and number of prior pregnancies.

Some software implementations add a second duration: one a " best guess ," or 50 % probability duration, and a second " safe " duration, which should have higher probability of completion ( perhaps 90 % or 95 %, depending on the amount of risk that the organization can accept ).

Summers then concluded his discussion of the three hypotheses by saying: So my best guess, to provoke you, of what's behind all of this is that the largest phenomenon, by far, is the general clash between people's legitimate family desires and employers ' current desire for high power and high intensity, that in the special case of science and engineering, there are issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly of the variability of aptitude, and that those considerations are reinforced by what are in fact lesser factors involving socialization and continuing discrimination.

So the buyer's best guess for a given car is that the car is of average quality ; accordingly, he / she will be willing to pay for it only the price of a car of known average quality.

The best recent estimated guess of the electrical " energy cost " per muon is about with accelerators that are ( coincidentally ) about 40 % efficient at transforming electrical energy from the power grid into acceleration of the deuterons.

Other computers, for example Delta P's VR3, will continue to function, providing ' best guess ' functionality whilst warning the diver that a stop has been missed, or stop depth exceeded.

This is the brain's effort to provide the consciousness with its best guess about the incoming information.

( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

Most of them sincerely believe that the Anglo-Saxon is the best race in the world and that it should remain pure.

The best gifts of the novelist will be wasted on the reader who is insulated against any surprises the novelist may have in store for him.

And the best way to conceal and disguise the elements of an incest story is not to set out to write an incest story.

There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.

All we want from Dr. Huxley's statement is the feeling that this is an open world, in the view of the best scientific opinion, with practically no directional commitments as to what may happen next, and no important confinements with respect to what may be possible.

Here, on a desk, is a stack of pamphlets representing the efforts of some of the best men of the day to penetrate these questions.

She was exposing herself to temptation which it is best to avoid where it can consistently be done.

Hammarskjold's supposed desire to seek outside legal advice in the guise of Ernest Gross is illusion, at best.

Though versatile and capable of turning out a ballad lyric with the best of them, Mercer's forte is a highly polished quasi-folk wit.

A truism is that the time to prepare for the worst is when times are best.

If it is not one of his best books, it can only be considered unsatisfactory when compared with his own Garibaldi.

Of the three volumes, Blenheim is easily the best.

Next best to destroying an army is to deprive it of its freedom of action.

His credulity is perhaps best illustrated in his introduction to The Emancipation Of Massachusetts, which purports to examine the trials of Moses and to draw a parallel between the leader of the Israelite exodus from Egypt and the leadership of the Puritan clergy in colonial New England.

Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.

If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.

We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.

Considering what is being done compared to what needs to be done, it behooves the hospital management to do some mighty careful planning toward making the best possible use of the increase granted.

Probably the best answer to this kind of entering wedge is congressional action requiring the Federal Communications Commission to ban such advertising through its licensing power.