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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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If sampling was performed at a project or location level, rather than asset by asset, first extrapolate to the project or location level, then allocate these estimates down to the asset level.
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"They needed to extrapolate this over 680 days, which effectively gave them a curve fit line generated through their data points.
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Lab screening to select the best option is straightforward and usually extrapolates directly to machine operation.
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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.
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The nature of the available information forces Landers to cite examples, often only a handful of examples, used to extrapolate larger patterns.
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Without access to curve data, engineers are forced to guess at a value to be inserted into the equation; with curve data, engineers can either select data measured at the test conditions or interpolate or extrapolate to reach an approximate value at the desired conditions -- a value that will likely be far more accurate than the guesstimate traditionally used.
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The question for instructional technology -- clearly an echo of Kozma's (1994) questions noted above -- seems to be how to adapt traditional design theories and methods to the creation of environments that can support both kinds of learning, perhaps within the same "package." 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.
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Beyond what they might produce, beyond what they might donate, beyond what they might wish for, they extrapolate the indulgence of feel-goodism past their own portfolio.
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Most of these firms are relatively young, and it would be premature to definitively extrapolate their experience into a trend.
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He should be able and have the time to simulate, extrapolate and statisticate.
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