But investors might want to be careful about extrapolating too much from Genentech's legal battles.
Extrapolating from one drug to an entire way of making medicines would be a mistake.
That is an important lesson about the difficulty of extrapolating laboratory results into the real world.
Tracy Kelly, of the charity Diabetes UK, cautioned against extrapolating to humans from studies on rats.
Extrapolating from its survey, Financial Fraud Action concludes that 380, 000 people could have become unwitting money mules.
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One of the roles of the genre is to comment on the present by extrapolating the future.
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You cannot predict future markets by extrapolating current sales or even by surveying intended purchases by current buyers.
We calculated medians for each school, extrapolating to missing years with the assumption of a constant growth rate.
For example, people are naturally inclined to make predictions by extrapolating recent trends.
Handing down the verdict in the book's title, and extrapolating beyond the limits of the evidence, is simply unscientific.
Are the men and women on the bleeding edge of music, technology, fashion and entertainment merely extrapolating from existing trends?
Some scientists, giving their imaginations free rein (and extrapolating from Earth's own sea creatures), have suggested filter-feeders, such as whales.
Some of the anxieties in the stock are coming from analysts mistakenly extrapolating the third stage to the fourth stage.
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MetLife conducted the study by analyzing news articles that referenced financial abuse of the elderly and extrapolating data from the findings.
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Extrapolating from the mouse data, you would need to keep your calorie intake to three-quarters of the amount recommended by dieticians.
Extrapolating this figure to the population at large, this means 27% of all adult Americans have sent or received texts while driving.
If we take a closer look at the last few years, extrapolating trend, we see that the curves will meet around 2017-2018.
Extrapolating from this, they calculate that an optimal strategy for surveying 90% of all protein domains would need 16, 000 carefully chosen targets.
However, he said there were big differences between the US and UK health systems, and so extrapolating from the American experience was not necessarily appropriate.
The three economists looked at actual portfolio flows during the crises, and compared them with the flows they would have expected from extrapolating past trends.
The exact number may never be established: after the first Gulf war, unreliable estimates were obtained by extrapolating from the number of destroyed Iraqi vehicles.
Extrapolating from the brain sizes and social networks of apes, Dr Dunbar suggested that the size of the human brain allows stable networks of about 148.
Professor Lobell said the study only referred to past relationships, as extrapolating the findings to predict future trends would require a number of assumptions to be made.
Since the vocal tract consists of soft tissue (and therefore does not fossilise), reconstructing it depends on extrapolating from measurements made at the bases of fossil skulls.
This is largely because, as Bill Hester noted in his research article last week, forward operating earnings are heavily determined by extrapolating the most recent year-over-year growth rate for earnings.
In a research note, Reliance Mutual Fund said that the current volatile environment has investors extrapolating the current context and wondering about the repeat of the doomsday scenario of 2008.
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Long history of American political mood swings, however, should temper those extrapolating moving averages of the recent past and imparting tranquility simply because the five year forecasts have yet to move.
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Extrapolating Apple sales into this flux is the misjudgement.
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