comparative estimate
1comparative estimate — index collation, comparison Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
2Comparative research — is a research methodology in the social sciences that aims to make comparisons across different countries or cultures. A major problem in comparative research is that the data sets in different countries may not use the same categories, or define …
3estimate — [es′tə māt΄; ] for n. [, es′təmit] vt. estimated, estimating [< L aestimatus, pp. of aestimare: see ESTEEM] 1. to form an opinion or judgment about 2. to judge or determine generally but carefully (size, value, cost, requirements, etc.);… …
4estimate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. consider, gauge, judge; value, appraise, evaluate, rate, assess, measure; compute, reckon, calculate. n. judgment, opinion, appraisal, report, criticism; calculation. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An… …
5Phylogenetic comparative methods — When applied to comparative data, conventional statistical methods assume, in effect, that all species are completely unrelated. As if they descended from a big bang of special creation. Such a scenario can be depicted as a star phylogeny (left) …
6Quantitative comparative linguistics — is a branch of comparative linguistics that applies mathematical models to the problem of classifying language relatedness. This includes the use of computational phylogenetics and cladistics to define an optimal tree (or network) to represent a… …
7Law of comparative judgment — The law of comparative judgment was conceived by L. L. Thurstone. In modern day terminology, it is more aptly described as a model that is used to obtain measurements from any process of pairwise comparison. Examples of such processes are the… …
8Comparison — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Comparison >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 comparison comparison collation contrast Sgm: N 1 identification identification Sgm: N 1 comparative estimate comparative estimate relative estimate GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 simile …
9comParison — (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The act of comparing] Syn. likening, colLating, analyzing, relative estimation, comparative relation, testing by a criterion, distinguishing between, analogizing, corresponding, paralleling, drawing parallels, contrasting,… …
10comparison — I noun alikeness, analogical procedure, analogy, association, balance, comparatio, comparative estimate, conlatio, contrast, correlation, equation, measurement, nearness, parallel, rapprochement, relative estimate, relative estimation,… …
