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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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Extrapolating the issue beyond this limited environment makes it even more complex because it raises questions about how students can access the most relevant and appropriate information across multiple resources without some mechanism that will expand their vocabularies and conceptual schemata.
Learning and the digital library
But there's quite a difference between an impartial federal bureaucracy extrapolating an educated approximation from its own research, and local officials with obvious political motives fudging the numbers in whatever way they see fit.
EDITORIAL PLAYING THE NUMBERS USING STATISTICS TO DENY THE VALLEY A FAIR SHARE
Extrapolating from their laboratory tests, the researchers theorize that simply walking into a patient's room can dislodge spores that cling to visitors' clothing.
Clothing spreads spores. (Mycotoxins)
Extrapolating from outbreak data to the number of sporadic cases does indeed have limitations, which is the reason we used it for only the few diseases for which other surveillance data were not available.
Food-related illness and death in the United States-reply to Dr. Hedberg
By extrapolating that number to the entire sky, Alejo Martinez-Sansigre of the University of Oxford in England and his collaborators came up with the predicted number of quasars in the cosmos.
Hidden black holes
Although food-use pesticide registrations require developmental toxicity studies and generational reproduction studies that are used to evaluate potential pre- and postnatal toxicity, extrapolating from animal bioassays is not a perfect method.
Chemical Regulation & Kids
Extrapolating from 1987-1992 government data, the study estimated that the number of Latino-owned firms in Southern California grew by more than 150 percent between 1992 and 1999.
LATINO FIRMS BULLISH : FAST-GROWING BUSINESS SEGMENT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT FUTURE GROWTH
Extrapolating their findings to the rest of the country, the researchers say that prior to the folic acid-fortification rule, an average of 4,130 neural tube defects occurred each year.
Folate enrichment pays baby dividends

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