unbiased estimate
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunbiasedandestimate
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unbiased
adjective
uk/ʌnˈbaɪəst/us/ʌnˈbaɪəst/
able to judge fairly because you are not influenced by your ...
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estimate
noun[C]
uk/ˈes.tɪ.mət/us/ˈes.tə.mət/
a guess of what the size, value, amount, cost, etc. of something ...
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The confidence intervals therefore reflected theunbiasedestimateof this error.
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Last, because there is no concurrent placebo group, anunbiasedestimateof treatment efficacy cannot be established and therefore no direct conclusion can be drawn about efficacy.
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Understanding that completer analyses are mediational in nature prevents the erroneous conclusion that restricting outcome analyses to participants completing the entire intervention is anunbiasedestimateof treatment effects.
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Note also that the output gap need not be directly observable to be an indicator variable in this framework-anunbiasedestimateof the output gap is all that is required.
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Neither market value nor book value is anunbiasedestimateof a corporation's value.
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However, unbiased estimates are premised on the existence of good data on input prices.
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Then the ratio of the sum of the "y" variates and the sum of the "x" variates chosen in this fashion is anunbiasedestimateof the ratio estimator.
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For example, a single observation is itself anunbiasedestimateof the mean and a pair of observations can be used to derive an unbiased estimate of the variance.
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Suppose that a simpleunbiasedestimatecan be constructed based on only a few observations: this defines the basic estimator based on a given number of observations.
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In such cases, differencing or cointegration methods are required to obtain unbiased estimates and standard errors.
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Second, it allows unbiased estimates of the correlates of this change.
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Therefore, we will need to address the issue of providing unbiased estimates of the magnitude of effect in the presence of unknown confounders.
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In practice, unbiased estimates are always pursued and used to identify differentially expressed genes.
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The presence of these important socio-economic variables, operating as controls, strengthens the argument that the significant party and ideology effects are unbiased estimates.
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Often, people refer to a biased estimate or anunbiasedestimate, but they really are talking about an estimate from a biased estimator, or an estimate from an unbiased estimator.
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This method produces unbiased estimates that become more precise with larger numbers of generations.
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Nearly unbiased estimates of d are obtained for most situations.
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This method yields unbiased estimates if data are missed at random.
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As a consequence, it was not possible to get unbiased estimates of dispersal.
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Though cross-sectional studies can provide valuable descriptive information, they are often limited in providing unbiased estimates of association.
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