a prior estimate

基本解释

A prior estimate of unit weight variance is usually calculated by the classicalFerrelo's formula.
三角洲量单位权方差的先验估值一般用经典菲列罗公式计算。
In this thesis, we mainly use the methods including Galerkin approximation, vanishing viscosity, a prior estimate and fixed point method.
本文所用的主要方法，包括Galerkin逼近、粘性消失、先验估计以及不动点方法。
From this point , we can establish a set of reasonable methods about selecting prior distribution and estimate its accuracy with the help of existed methods in statistics .
从这一角度出发，就可以借助统计学中已有方法，建立一套关于先验分布选取的合理方法，同时能估计其精度。

The best that a survey can generate is an estimate within a range that mathematicians can extract from prior estimates and the final numbers.
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