Noun: estimator 'e-stu,mey-tu(r)
- An expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)
"The company hired an estimator to manage their complex financial projections";
- calculator, reckoner, figurer, computer
- (statistics) a function of one or more random samples from a population that is used to estimate some parameter of the population
"not all estimators are unbiased"
Derived forms: estimators
Type of: expert
Encyclopedia: Estimator