Reporters make guesses about what Apple Chief Steve Jobs will do next all the time.
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The technique allows statisticians to make guesses about the size and make-up of a population based on only a small sample.
Other word clues helped him make educated guesses at his or her workplace.
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Many stats aren't released at all, leaving outside researchers to use whatever data they can find to make educated guesses.
It's impossible to count all these bits, but people make good guesses, and they have come up with one for 2002.
Sure, I can twist numbers and make wild guesses about the future of employment, interest rates, Fed policy or the banking system.
Most people decide to make their guesses about the deck where they know there's an even mix of red and blue cards.
Using "presence technology" the client can make logical guesses about when you're at (and not at) your PC or phone, and reroutes your notifications accordingly.
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The law-and-economics framework for analysing mergers, for example, does not obviate the need for trust-busters to make educated guesses about how competition might develop in future.
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By detecting patterns in documents that have already been translated by human translators, Google Translate can make intelligent guesses as to what an appropriate translation should be.
This system is based around powered versions of THIEL's SCS4 (the SCS4D), so we'll make two guesses -- it will sound good, but it won't be cheap.
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Those of you who consider the possibilities of combining ... wireless connections, Internet connection and flash memory, can begin to make educated guesses on what games we might be constructing.
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So make your guesses of who the top 10 earners of 2012 will be (remember, our scoring period runs from May 2011 to May 2012) in the comments section below .
That's because hedge funds do better early on, when they are small, than later, when they have to find places to put a lot more money and are more likely to make bad guesses.
By cross-referencing data on things like age, health, occupation, personal finances and property with voting intention, the parties are able to make informed guesses about where their support is and where they might pick up more votes.
But if they cannot make reasonable guesses as to when their drugs will go generic, it will slow their investment in new research, particularly in studies of medicines like Plavix or Lipitor that have been on the market for years.
In-car GPS developers have long had to wrestle with the urban canyon effect that blocks or bounces signals downtown: they often have to make best guesses for accuracy when they can't count on cellular or WiFi triangulation to pick up the slack, like a smartphone would.
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Hopefully, reading my considerations will help you make your own guesses with more confidence.
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But banks can make only rough guesses at the value of swaps and thus how much collateral their counterparties need to ante up.
Analysts will make their best guesses after Research In Motion announces the specific details this week, but the company may remain quiet for some time.
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These are some of the guesses one can make from Moore's Law.
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