Estimators capable of coping with outliers are said to be robust: the median is a robust statistic, while the mean is not.

* Civil Estimators are professionals who typically have a background in civil engineering, construction project management, or construction supervision.

Estimators that are commonly used to describe prognoses include:

* the Professional Construction Estimators Association of America, Inc.

Minimum Mean Squared Error Estimators.

Fuller ( 1979 ), “ Distribution of the Estimators for Autoregressive Time Series with a Unit Root ,” Journal of the American Statistical Association, 74, p. 427 – 431.

Stamps that are printed on sheets are generally separated by perforations, though, more recently, with the advent of gummed stamps that do not have to be moistened prior to affixing them, designs can incorporate smooth edges ( although a purely decorative perforated edge is often present ).

However, even prior to that year, Yale had begun to incorporate such amorphous criteria as ' character ' and ' solidity ', as well as ' physical characteristics ', into its admissions process as an excuse for screening out Jewish students ; but nothing was as effective as legacy preference, which allowed the admissions board to summarily pass over Jews in favor of ' Yale sons of good character and reasonably good record ', as a 1929 memo phrased it.

This was the first program to incorporate HTML ; prior to that, Westmate had " jumps " indicated by triangles instead of " links.

: It shall be required, as a prior condition to independence, to incorporate in the future constitutional provisions applying to Palestine those basic principles of the Charter of the United Nations whereby a State shall -

The term has evolved during the twentieth century to incorporate border massed artillery attacks by one army against another, for example the front wide bombardment prior to the 1916 attack on the Somme or the massed bombardments preceding Operation Uranus during World War II.

Many citizens in the nearby community of Midway were facing a similar situation with annexation and thus proceeded with efforts to incorporate as a separate municipality, similar to what many Pfafftown citizens tried years prior to the 2004 annexation.

Originally estimated to incorporate 20, 000 participants, only 15, 000 marched in the parade through Alexandria to the memorial prior to the dedication ceremony.

Crossbows incorporate a type of latch to hold the drawn bowstring prior to firing.

The wings also incorporate washout, retaining aileron effectiveness at or just prior to the stall.

Methods may incorporate or base themselves on traditional medicine, folk knowledge, spiritual beliefs, or newly conceived approaches to healing.

Some Christians who view the Jewish people as close to God seek to understand and incorporate elements of Jewish understanding or perspective into their beliefs as a means to respect their " parent " religion of Judaism, or to more fully seek out and return to their Christian roots.

Druze beliefs incorporate several elements from Abrahamic religions, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism and other philosophies.

Other examples of syncretism include Judeo-Paganists, a loosely organized set of Jews who incorporate pagan or Wiccan beliefs with some Jewish religious practices, like Messianic Judaism ; Jewish Buddhists, another loosely organized group that incorporates elements of Asian spirituality in their faith ; and some Renewal Jews who borrow freely and openly from Buddhism, Sufism, Native American religion, and other faiths.

Many pagans and pagan traditions attempt to incorporate elements of historical religions, cultures and mythologies into their beliefs and practices, often emphasizing the age of their sources.

As technology advanced many different cultures started to look into different religions and incorporate different beliefs into society.

Plato's acceptance of the doctrine is characteristic of his sympathy with popular beliefs and desire to incorporate them in a purified form into his system.

Rey builds on Jerry Fodor's representational theory of mind to produce his own version of a Computational / Representational Theory of Thought that tries to incorporate and extend our ordinary day-to-day world of mental experience: our beliefs, hopes, and desires.

There are smaller churches, such as the Old Catholic Church which rejected the definition of Papal Infallibility at the First Vatican Council, and Anglo-Catholics, Anglicans who believe that Anglicanism is a continuation of historical Catholicism and who incorporate many Catholic beliefs and practices.

An analysis of the national symbols of the United States is used by Campbell to illustrate the ability for myths to incorporate the beliefs of a whole society and to provide the mythology to unify a nation.

Revision and merging differ in that the first operation is done when the new belief to incorporate is considered more reliable than the old ones ; therefore, consistency is maintained by removing some of the old beliefs.

The Patua are Sunni Muslims, but incorporate many folks beliefs.

As mentioned above, the Lenca's acculturation has enabled them to incorporate their traditions and beliefs with their Catholic religion in a process of ongoing religious syncretism

The name of the text means The First Thought which is in Three Forms ( or The Three Forms of the First Thought ), and appears to have been rewritten at some point to incorporate Sethian beliefs, when originally it was a treatise from another Gnostic sect.

Most advocates loosely adhere to beliefs about reincarnation, though religious traditions that incorporate reincarnation generally do not include the idea of repressed memories of past lives.

These guitars are most commonly used by swing and jazz players and often incorporate electronics in the form of a pickup.

Products such as PLC ( Portland Limestone Cement ), which incorporate limestone into the mix, are being tested.

If communities are developed based on something they share in common, whether that be location or values, then one challenge for developing communities is how to incorporate individuality and differences.

Because of these differences, corporate lawyers are often consulted in an effort to determine the most appropriate or advantageous state in which to incorporate, and a majority of public companies in the U. S. are Delaware corporations.

While some anti-imperialist narratives notably those of historians within the People's Republic of China as well as Western Marxist histories incorporate anti-imperialist narratives in their histories, many anti-imperialist narratives are non-Marxist or as in the case of the Kuomintang in the 1960s, actively anti-Marxist.

At any point in history, in any location, rhyming slang can be seen to incorporate words and phrases that are relevant at that particular time and place.

Primarily, these are the Orders in Council, which give the government the authority to declare war, conclude treaties, issue passports, make appointments, make regulations, incorporate, and receive lands that escheat to the Crown.

Gymnastics, figure skating and synchronized swimming are sports that incorporate dance, while martial arts kata are often compared to dances.

: Super barrier diodes are rectifier diodes that incorporate the low forward voltage drop of the Schottky diode with the surge-handling capability and low reverse leakage current of a normal p – n junction diode.

Physical theories that incorporate time, such as general relativity, are said to work in 4-dimensional " spacetime ", ( defined as a Minkowski space ).

Some professional dominatrices are also " lifestyle " dominatrices-i. e., in addition to paid sessions with submissive clients they engage in unpaid recreational sessions or may incorporate power exchange within their own private lives and relationships.

This method, widely used in drug development, is referred to as rNPV ( risk-adjusted NPV ), and similar methods are used to incorporate credit risk in the probability model of CDS valuation.

Yet the borders of Europe — a concept dating back to classical antiquity — are somewhat arbitrary, as the primarily physiographic term " continent " can incorporate cultural and political elements.

They exist in many areas of international law but are especially useful in the environmental field, where they may be used to regularly incorporate recent scientific knowledge.

There are also types of data that are not intended for static display — these incorporate the time dimension.

Public spaces, including the 20, 000 square foot IACC Conference Center incorporate touches that are reminiscent of the spirit of George Mason.

Bacteriophages lend themselves to experiments on hereditary material because they incorporate their genetic material into their host cell's genetic material ( making them useful tools ), they multiply quickly, and they are easily collected by researchers.

The only direct links in a hierarchy, insofar as they are hierarchical, are to one's immediate superior or to one of one's subordinates, although a system that is largely hierarchical can also incorporate alternative hierarchies.

These groups are not especially interested in comedy, either as a technique or as an effect, but rather in expanding the improv genre so as to incorporate techniques and approaches that have long been a legitimate part of European theatre.

In general, Orthodox and Conservative congregations adhere most closely to tradition, and Reform and Reconstructionist synagogues are more likely to incorporate translations and contemporary writings in their services.