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extrapolate

vb. to estimate an unknown (future) value by projecting from known (past) values (in TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS). This involves predicting a value for the
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Based on previous estimates that suggested that the ratio of illnesses to hospitalizations to deaths for nontyphoidal salmonellosis is roughly 2,426 to 28 to 1 (1), our estimate extrapolates to [approximately equal to]2,000 hospitalizations and 70 deaths.
Estimate of illnesses from Salmonella Enteritidis in eggs, United States, 2000
The demonstration that many PCBs block SXR in humans rather than activate it--as previously thought, based on animal models--challenges the assumption that animal models extrapolate to humans.
The danger of extrapolation: humans and rodents differ in response to PCBs
The question for those who are concerned with learning and the digital library is how to extrapolate the insights gained through research in these individual settings into a wider world that includes many discrete many discrete resources and also requires traversal across and among them.
Learning and the digital library
The book is overflowing with fresh insights, recastings of old debates, new ways to extrapolate evidence, realignments of theoretical traditions, improved translations, etc.
Mensuration and Proportion Signs: Origins and Evolution
If one could extrapolate from the experience of offshore wind power, for which we have a bit more experience, the installation period is disruptive but nor damaging," says Rick Sellers, head of the Renewable Energy Unit of the International Energy Agency in Paris.
Tidal turbines: wave of the future?
From these contrasts you can extrapolate much of the historiographical anatomy you need to develop a historical understanding of architecture, such as the problems of authorship and attribution, the relationship between buildings and records, or the latent assumptions with which individual historians implicitly frame their studies.
Reading Architectural History. (Looking Back And Ahead)
It worries that bureaucrats will extrapolate the numbers to make a mountain out of a racial-profiling molehill, responding with indirect quotas that will make cops reluctant to pull over anyone of the ``wrong'' race.
EDITORIAL CONSENT DECREE EXPOSED NOT POLICE REFORM, BUT A POLITICAL CHEAP TRICK

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