The company had re-leased estimates covering 20 % damage to be re-insured at minimal fees when in fact the damage was over 65 % and every claim was in the millions.

In fact, even if all estimates have astronomical absolute values for their errors, if the expected value of the error is zero, the estimator is unbiased.

In fact, a reticulocyte count estimates the rate of erythropoiesis.

In fact, current estimates place boreal forests as storing twice as much carbon per unit area as tropical forests.

This correctly estimates the variance, due to the fact that ( 1 ) the average of normally distributed random variables is also normally distributed ; ( 2 ) the predictive distribution of a normally distributed data point with unknown mean and variance, using conjugate or uninformative priors, has a Student's t-distribution.

The difficulty in proving the latter lies in the fact that, while the number of board positions that could happen in the course of a chess game is huge ( on the order of 10 < sup > 40 </ sup >< ref name =" Shannon1950 "> The size of the state space and game tree for chess were first estimated in Shannon gave estimates of 10 < sup > 43 </ sup > and 10 < sup > 120 </ sup > respectively, smaller than the estimates in the Game complexity table, which are from Victor Allis's thesis.

As of the population estimates in July 2005, the town's current population is 15, 768, which is an 11. 9 % increase from 2000, in fact this is one of the fastest growing towns in the State of New York.

Also, the sources like Westermann's report contain the exact data about the number of deported persons, but only estimates of the numbers of those who died in transit, the fact which also hints that they were included in the final sum, because it would be hard for the authorities in Bełżec to learn the exact number of those murdered, excluding the dead in transport.

" By October of that year, " Lawrence Di Rita, the Pentagon's chief spokesman, said ' prewar estimates that may be borne out in fact are likelier to be more lucky than smart.

However, production levels are by no means level, and are in fact increasing and some estimates are that peak coal could arrive in many countries such as China and America by around 2030.

Some countries have used a three-year average in recognition of the fact that household survey estimates are of poor quality.

When describing these wildly differing estimates, Feynman briefly lapses from his damaging but dispassionate detailing of NASA's flaws to recognize the moral failing that resulted from a scientific failing: he was clearly upset that NASA presented its clearly fantastical figures as fact to convince a member of the public, schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, to join the crew.

It is commonly believed that the number of fatalities is higher than the estimates given, due to poorly kept residency records in rural towns, and the fact that some smaller remains were never identified or claimed.

Combining these corrections with estimates of successive murder probabilities by affluent non-smokers, Mathematics Professor Ray Hill found that the probability of Clark's guilt could be as low as 10 % ( based solely on the fact of two unexplained child deaths, and before any other evidence was considered ).

" A review by MR Palairet criticized the book's methodology, particularly the imprecise estimates of GDP and the fact that IQ data was only available for 81 of the 185 countries studied.

McPhee cited these errors as follows: ( 1 ) The war was not fought against Vendeans but Royalist Vendeans, the government relied on the support of Republican Vendeans ; ( 2 ) the Convention ended the campaign after the Royalist Army was clearly defeated – if the aim was genocide, then they would have continued and easily exterminated the population ; ( 3 ) Fails to inform the reader of atrocities committed by Royalist against Republicans in the Vendée ; ( 4 ) Repeats stories now known to be folkloric myths as fact ; ( 5 ) Does not refer to the wide range of estimates of deaths suffered by both sides, and that casualties were not " one-sided "; and more.

First, vaccines do not overwhelm the immune system ; in fact, conservative estimates predict that the immune system can respond to thousands of viruses simultaneously.

The reason for the factor n − 1 rather than n is essentially the same as the reason for the same factor appearing in unbiased estimates of sample variances and sample covariances, which relates to the fact that the mean is not known and is replaced by the sample mean.

Given the fact that these gestation lengths are only estimates of an average, it is helpful to consider gestation time as a range of dates rather than a single " due date ".

The more conservative estimates of the Scottish casualties are borne out by the fact that, the day after the battle, Leslie retreated to Stirling with some 4, 000-5, 000 of his remaining troops.

Campbell explains this with the fact that he has got better data from industry and more reliable estimates.

The authors described the fact that their estimate is over ten times higher than other estimates, such as the Iraq Body Count project ( IBC ) estimate and U. S. Department of Defence estimates, as " not unexpected ", stating that this is a common occurrence in conflict situations.

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

That unused room was large enough for -- well, say an elephant could get into it and, as a matter of fact, an elephant did.

In fact, I can only say this seems to me to follow from a wide, continuous, and properly guided exposure to literary art.

the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

In fact, some -- Anzilotti is the principle example -- went so far as to say that all international law could be traced to the single legal norm, Pacta sunt Servanda.

Let us suppose that the animal did not in fact fall into the trap and did not suffer at all, but that we mistakenly believe it did, and say as before that its suffering was an evil thing.

This leads to the conclusion that `` the fact is inescapable that America does have a say in whether or not apartheid shall continue ''.

" f one regards the Modest Proposal simply as a criticism of condition, about all one can say is that conditions were bad and that Swift's irony brilliantly underscored this fact ".

His western coastline is so distorted, however, that it is impossible to say where Adjacium was ; certainly, he would have known its name and location if he had had any first-hand knowledge of the island and if in fact it was there.

In fact, as their synthesis is controlled by a template directed process in most in vivo systems all biopolymers of a type ( say one specific protein ) are all alike: they all contain the similar sequences and numbers of monomers and thus all have the same mass.

In fact, they've fallen short of it but -- difficult as it is for me to understand -- a modern sophist might say that these last years have actually demanded a reduction in conscience and feeling in the name of greater intelligibility.

" Needless to say, he mentioned Leonidovich's, " mistakes and failings ," but hastened to add that, " they do not, however, prevent us from recognizing the fact that he was a great poet.

: Nils Nilsson writes " If a program behaves as if it were multiplying, most of us would say that it is, in fact, multiplying.

Rabbi Akiva used to say, " Beloved is man, for he was created in God's image ; and the fact that God made it known that man was created in His image is indicative of an even greater love.

Regarding Seo Hell in the Old English Gospel of Nicodemus, Michael Bell states that " her vivid personification in a dramatically excellent scene suggests that her gender is more than grammatical, and invites comparison with the Old Norse underworld goddess Hel and the Frau Holle of German folklore, to say nothing of underworld goddesses in other cultures " yet adds that " the possibility that these genders are merely grammatical is strengthened by the fact that an Old Norse version of Nicodemus, possibly translated under English influence, personifies Hell in the neuter ( Old Norse þat helviti ).

But there is no evidence to prove that he was guilty of that crime ; in fact most travelers ' reports say that he met her after Sher Afghan's death.

Scholars defending Luke's authorship say there is no reason for early Christians to attribute these works to such a minor figure if he did not in fact write them, nor is there any tradition attributing this work to any other author.

The meaning of Dromio ’ s line has not been satisfactorily explained by critics, but Oxfordians say the line is somehow connected to the fact that de Vere was given a £ 1, 000 annuity by the Queen, later continued by King James.

Toumey ’ s analysis also includes comments from distinguished scientists in nanotechnology who say that “ Plenty of Room ” did not influence their early work, and in fact most of them had not read it until a later date.

Father Franziscus Stratman, senior Catholic chaplain at Berlin University wrote " The souls of well-disposed people are in a turmoil as a result of the tyranny of the National Socialists, and I am merely stating a fact when I say that the authority of the bishops among innumerable Catholics and non-Catholics has been shaken by the quasi-approval of the National Socialist movement ".

It is reasonable ( by human thinking ) to both affirm and deny it (" well, he is, but he isn't "), and it is also reasonable to say that he is neither (" he's halfway in the room, which is neither in nor out "), despite the fact that the statement is to be exclusively proven or disproven.

But that change is still not quite enough because it fails to take into account the fact that both photons and electrons can be polarized, which is to say that their orientation in space and time have to be taken into account.

Although Orbison recorded and wrote standard structure songs before " Only the Lonely ", he claimed never to have learned how to write them: " I'm sure we had to study composition or something like that at school, and they'd say ' This is the way you do it ,' and that's the way I would have done it, so being blessed again with not knowing what was wrong or what was right, I went on my own way .... So the structure sometimes has the chorus at the end of the song, and sometimes there is no chorus, it just goes ... But that's always after the fact — as I'm writing, it all sounds natural and in sequence to me.