The approval of only three members of the board of school estimate is required to certify the amount of money to be allotted to the college.

Pauling's estimate of 200 megatons yield from the present series of Russian tests will probably turn out to be too high, but a total of 100 megatons is a distinct possibility.

In the first place, a large part of the discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor.

They estimate further that with sufficient experience and when cost-data of compact cars is compiled, the break-even point may be reduced to 7,500 miles of travel per year.

The safest procedure is to let your builder estimate the size of the unit you need, rather than trying to do this yourself.

Another approach is to estimate from the rate of growth and the smallest size at maturity.

When an evaluative situation is set up, and no concern is with the details that lead to an over-all estimate, we say that roleplaying is used for evaluation.

By means of charts showing wave-travel times and depths in the ocean at various locations, it is possible to estimate the rate of approach and probable time of arrival at Hawaii of a tsunami getting under way at any spot in the Pacific.

This ignorant estimate, I repeat, is not of any interest in itself ; ;

It is interesting that, although the percentage of married students is not appreciably higher at Brooklyn than elsewhere -- about 30 per cent of the women and 25 per cent of the men in the graduating class -- the anxiety of the unmarried has puffed up the estimate.

An estimate of one million dollars is probably not excessive.

Total farm output for this year is officially forecast at 129% of the 1947-49 average, three points higher than the July 1 estimate and exactly equal to the final figure for 1960.

From actions aboard, it is easy to guess that Spencer's boast of twenty staunch followers was a modest estimate ''.

The participating institutions each broadcast, in real time, a frequency signal with time codes, which is their estimate of TAI.

* If it is required to use a single number X as an estimate for the value of numbers, then the arithmetic mean does this best, in the sense of minimizing the sum of squares ( x < sub > i </ sub > − X )< sup > 2 </ sup > of the residuals.

A formula for calculating an unbiased estimate of the population variance from a finite sample of n observations is:

Based on this sample, the estimated population mean is 10, and the unbiased estimate of population variance is 30.

According to the estimate of a former prime minister, Hrant Bagratian, 55 percent of Armenia's GDP is controlled by 44 families.

The best current ( 2009 ) estimate of the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) for the value of the astronomical unit in meters is A = m, based on a comparison of JPL and IAA – RAS ephemerides.

The total population estimate in all of Norway, Sweden and Finland is a mere 120 adult individuals.

The flux values are for all particles with masses greater than the given mass and are based on an estimate of the numbers of visual meteors.

* Glottochronology, which attempts to estimate the time depth of a language family based on an assumed rate of change in languages.

The latter estimate was based on the angle between the half moon and the Sun, which he estimated as 87 ° ( the true value being close to 89. 853 °).

The researchers estimate that the river — known as a submarine channel — would be the sixth largest river in the world if it were on land based on the amount of water flowing through it.

* CERA — Component ERA: an estimate of a pitcher's ERA based upon the individual components of his statistical line ( K, H, 2B, 3B, HR, BB, HBP )

* DICE — Defense-Independent Component ERA: an estimate of a pitcher's ERA based upon the defense-independent components of his statistical line ( K, HR, BB, HBP )

However, a better estimate, based on State Department and Israeli sources put the figure at about 500, 000.

Rummel has responded that the 20 million estimate is based on a figure from Robert Conquest's 1968 book The Great Terror, and that Conquest's qualifier " almost certainly too low " is usually forgotten.

Zwicky estimated the cluster's total mass based on the motions of galaxies near its edge and compared that estimate to one based on the number of galaxies and total brightness of the cluster.

In statistics, an estimator is a rule for calculating an estimate of a given quantity based on observed data: thus the rule and its result ( the estimate ) are distinguished.

The WHO estimated that an additional 10 – 20 babies die per 1, 000 deliveries as a result of FGM ; the estimate was based on a 2006 study conducted on 28, 393 women attending delivery wards at 28 obstetric centers in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan.

Just as radiative forcing provides a simplified means of comparing the various factors that are believed to influence the climate system to one another, global-warming potentials ( GWPs ) are one type of simplified index based upon radiative properties that can be used to estimate the potential future impacts of emissions of different gases upon the climate system in a relative sense.

In 2007, S. Elizabeth Alter used a genetic approach to estimate prewhaling abundance based on samples from 42 California gray whales, and reported DNA variability at 10 genetic loci consistent with a population size of 76, 000 – 118, 000 individuals, three to five times larger than the average census size as measured through 2007.

The latest date estimate is based on an entry, of 26 July 1602, in the Register of the Stationers ' Company, indicating that Hamlet was " latelie Acted by the Lo: Chamberleyne his servantes ".

* British Royal Automobile Club ( RAC ) horsepower is one of the tax horsepower systems adopted around Europe which make an estimate based on several engine dimensions.

One estimate is that the average hedge fund returned 11. 4 % per year, representing a 6. 7 % return above overall market performance before fees, based on performance data from 8, 400 hedge funds.

For example, an accountant who has prepared a consumer's tax return has information that can be used to charge customers based on an estimate of their ability to pay.

The presence of people in Mesoamerica was once thought to date back 40, 000 years, an estimate based on what were believed to be ancient footprints discovered in the Valley of Mexico ; but after further investigation using radiocarbon dating, it appears this date may not be accurate.

Manual evaluation is performed by human judges, which are instructed to estimate the quality of a system, or most often of a sample of its output, based on a number of criteria.

* Parallax on an educational website, including a quick estimate of distance based on parallax using eyes and a thumb only

Before the 15th century, mathematicians such as Archimedes and Liu Hui used geometrical techniques, based on polygons, to estimate the value of.

These algorithms compute an estimate of the likely distribution of annihilation events that led to the measured data, based on statistical principles.