Last year Mitsch ranked second on the Forbes.com list of best earnings estimators in the chemical industry.
Roofers are showing video evidence of flaking shingles to their office estimators so that quotes are more accurate.
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Even in 1986, there were the revenue estimators, a Ouija board-wielding job that is key to tax legislation.
The rap on the most accurate earnings estimators is that they tend to be Excel jockeys, more adept at spreadsheets than market-timing heroics.
As estimates can be biased due to problems of omitted variables, endogeneity, or measurement errors, it is necessary to rely on a broad range of estimators.
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There are many other free ways to get a general sense of what your house is worth, including various web-based automated home-price estimators that rely on recent sales.
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The budget estimators pretend the loans cost taxpayers little or nothing as the money goes out the door, then make an "upward reestimate" to reflect the true cost.
At each turning in the capital-gains saga, government revenue estimators over-estimated realizations and revenues when the tax rate was raised and under-estimated realizations and revenues when the tax rate was lowered.
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The normal practice in weapons purchases is to transition to fixed pricing only after technologies and designs are sufficiently mature so that cost estimators can anticipate possible deviations from the plan.
For instance, Pentagon estimators based their F-35 projections on how similar fighter programs have fared in the past, and thus ignored the various efficiency features and sustainment enablers built into F-35 that did not exist in earlier programs.
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