Concept information
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clinical medicine
medical decision making
biostatistics and clinical epidemiology
hypothesis testing
Preferred term
estimation
Definition
- Estimation is the process of providing a numerical value for an unknown quantity based on information collected from a sample. If a single value is calculated for the unknown quantity, the process is called point estimation. [Source: Encyclopedia of Research Design; Estimation]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/estimation
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