estimation
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The Wildlife Institute of India's new All-India Elephant Estimation report released this week puts the wild elephant population at 22,446 -- down from nearly 29,964 estimated in 2017, a fall of 25 percent.
From Barron's • Oct. 15, 2025
Facial Age Estimation offers a "potentially rapid and simple means" for testing judgements when assessing age, Eagle said.
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2025
Rhode referenced the Nature Conservancy’s Shallow Groundwater Estimation Tool, which found that 44% of ecosystems statewide have been impacted by a significant, long-term decline in groundwater between 1985 and 2019.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2022
Estimation of key epidemiological parameters is important in its own right, to understand the dynamic of the pandemic, learn from it, and devise long term-strategies.
From Slate • Apr. 27, 2020
Estimation is generally not taught either, aside from a few lessons on rounding off numbers.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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