A single value given as an estimate of a parameter of a population.
〔统计〕点估计值。比较INTERVAL ESTIMATE
Compare with interval estimate
Example sentencesExamples
Two-tailed statistical significance was calculated as the frequency of obtaining a correlation coefficient whose absolute value was greater than or equal to the absolute value of the original point estimate.
Although the use of discrete probabilities in a stochastic process certainly has an advantage over a single point estimate, the realistic a priori estimate of the probabilities can be a challenge.
In a nutshell, maximum likelihood gives only a point estimate of the parameters, which ignores the more detailed information contained in the curvature and multimodality of the likelihood landscape.
The authors conclude that the breathing reserve index provided the highest point estimate of mortality in patients with cystic fibrosis waiting for lung transplantation.
An advantage of Bayesian methods is the ability to arrive at not only a point estimate of the unknown parameters, but also a distributional estimate.
Definition of point estimate in US English:
point estimate
noun
Statistics
A single value given as an estimate of a parameter of a population.
〔统计〕点估计值。比较INTERVAL ESTIMATE
Compare with interval estimate
Example sentencesExamples
Two-tailed statistical significance was calculated as the frequency of obtaining a correlation coefficient whose absolute value was greater than or equal to the absolute value of the original point estimate.
Although the use of discrete probabilities in a stochastic process certainly has an advantage over a single point estimate, the realistic a priori estimate of the probabilities can be a challenge.
An advantage of Bayesian methods is the ability to arrive at not only a point estimate of the unknown parameters, but also a distributional estimate.
The authors conclude that the breathing reserve index provided the highest point estimate of mortality in patients with cystic fibrosis waiting for lung transplantation.
In a nutshell, maximum likelihood gives only a point estimate of the parameters, which ignores the more detailed information contained in the curvature and multimodality of the likelihood landscape.