estimators

Five or six officers or men, selected from the most accurate estimators in the company, are designated as _range estimators_ and are specially trained in estimating distances.

Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition 1906

CLARIFY uses statistical simulation often called “Monte Carlo” simulation to generate predicted values from a statistical model using any of the standard estimators: linear regression, logistic regression, ordered logit, etc.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

In other words, they effectively stuffed a $1.6 trillion tax cut in the bill, even though the estimators were required to say it "cost" only $1.35 trillion.

The battle over the health care bill Glenn Kessler 2011

If I were writing a story, I would look at the estimates, who estimated them, and how accurate those estimators have been.

Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola 2010

According to other reports, loan specialists, cost estimators, physical therapy assistants, construction workers, and information technology specialists are also in the mix of people who may stand to benefit from stimulus money as things evolve.

Stimulus dollars at work: Fighting forest fires 2009

Use online cost estimators to find out which plan is right for you.

What's Happening To Your Health Plan? Avery Johnson 2010

Futures prices are biased estimators of future spot prices.

Sticky-Priced, Illiquid Asset, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

As a result, Mr. Pillar stated in a January 2008 NPR interview, "estimators might have shaped [the 2007 Iran] estimate in a way that would take this military option off the table."

Avoiding Another Intelligence Failure on Iran 2010

Congressional estimators also said they hadn't had enough time to run the numbers.

Budget office estimates health-care law could cost more than $1 trillion 2010

There are an estimated 100,000 illegal immigrants in Minnesota, at least according to crack Republican estimators.

Robert J. Elisberg: An Illegal Immigration Bill We All Can Love 2010