Example sentences for: underestimate

How can you use “underestimate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I do not think we underestimate the severity of the problems with which we are dealing," and then says that investors widely took this as indicating the quarter-point rate cut.

  • Seven percent is certainly a large underestimate of the frequency at which genes are overexpressed, as embryogenesis was not tested, and not all genes will be lethal or have an obvious visible phenotype when overexpressed.

  • The number of EF-hand proteins in the human genome was given as 83, with a note that the number may be an underestimate as a result of the stringent E-value cutoff used for the analysis [ 43].

  • The road to 9/11 again illustrates how the large, unwieldy U.S. government tended to underestimate a threat that grew ever greater.

  • With bootstrapping, (i) the entire data set is resampled with replacement many times, (ii) on each resampling the statistics is computed, and (iii) the statistics from each resampling are combined in a special way [ 22 ] . In a recent study comparing these adjustments with other types of statistics in a different setting, Steyerberg et al [ 22 ] found that the split-sample approach tended to underestimate performance, cross-validation performed poorly on some statistics that were not normally distributed, and bootstrapping performed best overall.


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