Misestimate

Quick meaning: Misestimate is a verb meaning To estimate erroneously.

Meaning

To estimate erroneously.

More Meanings

1. An erroneous estimate.

Example Sentences

This was due not to pro-German sympathies but to a plain misestimate (not confined to him) of the real relative strengths of the various political forces.

However, in the absence of real data on actual language use in the aural-oral landscape, there will always exist the possibility to misestimate such impacts.

[W]e shall infallibly bestow a disproportionate attention upon those which our theory takes into account, while we mis-estimate the rest, and probably underrate their importance.

To illustrate the nature of this problem, a misestimate of 0.01 on a favorite whose true winning probability is 0.20 is, in percentage terms, quite small compared to a misestimate of 0.01 on a long shot whose true winning probability is 0.04.

Word Forms

• misestimates
• misestimating
• misestimated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include misjudge, misperceive, misunderestimate, misfigure, miscalculate, misconsider.

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