What's the difference between miscalculate and misestimate?
Miscalculate
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To calculate erroneously; to judge wrongly.
Example Sentences:
(1) 4.23pm GMT Guardian Washington correspondent Paul Lewis (@ PaulLewis ) has more on defense secratary Hagel’s warning to Russia that military exercises planned near the border of Ukraine could “lead to miscalculation”: “We expect other nations to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and avoid provocative actions,” Hagel told a press conference during a NATO defence meeting in Brussels.
(2) Britain's Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) seems to have badly miscalculated in discounting the political necessity of immediately introducing legislation to ban surrogate parenthood arrangements.
(3) Crucial to all this is public opinion: if Hunt thinks it will swing his way he may be making yet another of his serial miscalculations.
(4) Or, perhaps more accurately, he made miscalculations.
(5) These may be due to mechanical problems, machine failure, or user incidents (misprogramming, or miscalculation of doses).
(6) He said: “While the threat from Russia, together with the risk it brings of a miscalculation resulting in a slide into strategic conflict, however unlikely we see that as being right now, represents an obvious existential threat to our whole being, we of course face threats from Isis and other instabilities to our way of life and the security of our loved ones.” Bradshaw said the Nato summit in Wales in September 2014 had been dominated by the urgent need for change due to Russian behaviour.
(7) The top priority, for Hartgerink, is something much more grave than correcting simple statistical miscalculations.
(8) The prime minister promised to campaign "heart and soul" to stay in the EU if he achieves his new deal, but also declined to say if he would argue for a no vote if he has miscalculated and finds he is unable to secure the terms he wants from his EU partners.
(9) Using such tables an incorrect reading off or a miscalculation is not infrequent.
(10) The risks of a nuclear catastrophe – in a regional war, terrorist attack, by accident or miscalculation – is greater than it was during the cold war and rising, a former US defence secretary has said.
(11) Obama and his advisers badly miscalculated a lot of things and failed to make good and courageous decisions in all sorts of ways,” he wrote.
(12) The countries supporting it had hoped the military would enforce its rule in a matter of weeks, but they miscalculated: three months on the Egyptian scene hasn't settled down.
(13) Earlier this month, the Guardian revealed allegations that the government's engineering consultants , Parsons Brinckerhoff, had miscalculated the costs of a tidal lagoon project of the kind championed by FOE.
(14) In his Ted talk, he lists four of them: the western attempt to rebuild the Russian economy; the American invasion of Iraq and attempt to build democracy; the miscalculations of risk, which led to the 2008 financial collapse , and two decades in the US of failed attempts to reform education.
(15) Russel said the roll-out of China's air defense zone had increased the risk of "miscalculation and an accident" that could lead to conflict.
(16) Such environmental health protection should not be just a safety valve to "let off steam" if planning had been based on miscalculations and false appraisals--it should function in advance to prevent such social and political mishaps.
(17) And they will be eager to exploit any miscalculations by the British government or British voters.
(18) "I think China miscalculated in the late 90s, by exporting to eastern Tibetan areas aggressive anti-Dalai Lama policies they had been imposing for years in central Tibetan areas," said Professor Robert Barnett, an expert on Tibet at Columbia University.
(19) But Peter Ullman, chief executive of Tidal Electric, said: "PB has made huge miscalculations.
(20) The people need to understand what voting ‘no’ here means: we learnt that in the UK.” The prime minister’s big miscalculation, said Scarpetta, was that he believed that the constitutional reform was a top priority for Italian voters who were eager for change.
Misestimate
Definition:
(v. t.) To estimate erroneously.
Example Sentences:
(1) Therefore the isonymy analysis gives a misestimation of the inbreeding coefficient, depending on the prevailing form of nonrandomness.
(2) Collectively and for the range of figures studied, the data show progressive elongations of the contextual lines of the illusion figure first increase, then decrease, the apparent length of the judged line; the misestimation of the length of the judged line diminishes as the separation between it and shorter contextual lines increases; and variations in contour lightness significantly affect the illusion when the contextual lines are shorter than and at any distance from the judged line or when the contextual lines are slightly longer than and at an intermediate distance from the judged line.
(3) A computer simulation suggested that the usual savings score could grossly misestimate transfer ability.
(4) Using simple, single angular figures, including figures containing only one line, we have shown systematic misestimations of distance defined by these figures.
(5) It is possible that fluctuations in the subject's criterion for response (rather than actual variations in sensitivity) are responsible both for misestimations of the magnitude of the hearing loss induced by exposure to particular intense sounds (the TTS), and for the high variability that is commonly observed.
(6) In addition, these groups charge that decision analysts are misestimating patient dysutilities.
(7) Only the overestimated assimilative illusion varied significantly with age, producing smaller misestimations in both youth and old age and a maximal distortion in the 50s.
(8) These misestimations are not related to the absolute distance per se, but are related both to the size of the angle defining the distance, and to the part of the angle defining it.
(9) The specific forecasts could be inaccurate, however, as a consequence of erroneous assumptions or misestimated baseline data, and the model awaits validation based on actual future data.
(10) As to single foods, however, individual misestimations ranging from 30 to 50% are to be expected.
(11) This paper examines three issues: 1) in what sense(s), if any, is decision-analytic work in individualized medical decision making misestimating patient dysutilities, 2) if this misestimation is real, whether it is an example of the normative-descriptive tensions that exist in medical decision making, and 3) in what ways do the relationships between decision-analytic and judicial decision making change when informed consent is viewed in terms of contract law as opposed to tort law.
(12) Comparisons among estimates of the time of GSR initiation and termination and of the GSR magnitude by three different methods are made for each of the three proposed method of estimating the GSR magnitude, latency, and recruitment--may increasingly misestimate their values as the preresponse or nonresponse rate departs from zero and as the duration of the response increases.
(13) The aims of the present paper are to investigate the potential size of such nonadditivity and such misestimations and to provoke discussion on the empirical plausibility (or otherwise) of epistatic effects.