The sample maximum is the maximum likelihood estimator for the population maximum, but, as discussed above, it is biased.

formula_19and formula_20It would seem that the sample mean is a better estimator since its variance is lower for every N 1.

United Nations libraries offer steady, unbiased points of reference and access to essential context.

This thirst for unbiased information highlights the dramatic change that the Internet has brought to China s political landscape.

This function may be performed by a judge, a panel of judges, or a jury panel composed of unbiased citizens.

DMOs should guarantee the credibility of the system by providing unbiased information and offering an easy to use, attractive website.

CoCoE (Contact Conductance Estimator), a project founded to solve this problem and create a centralized database of contact conductance data and a computer program that uses it, was started in 2006.

Most economists have very little interaction with the corporate world, and these unbiased economists were no better at forecasting the crisis.

Concerning the elements of the scale methodology, the income measure must give a clear and unbiased picture of overall economic performance.

Meanwhile, Kuwaiti bloggers have joined hands in a new blog which aims to provide an unbiased view and news on the elections.

For example, a newspaper may provide quality, unbiased coverage of the economy, health, and other issues, but still avoid reporting on the government.

Today, good conditions exist for calm and unbiased examination of Russia s past, from the Revolution of 1917 to the days of stagnation under Brezhnev.

The provision of unbiased information on safe sex practices, on the full range of preventive measures, must be made widely available to all young people.

He exercised his right to independent merits review of both adverse decisions and attended hearings before the Refugee Review Tribunal that were fair and unbiased.

Statisticians recommend that experiments compare (at least) one new treatment with a standard treatment or control, to allow an unbiased estimate of the difference in treatment effects.

A declaration of independence should be recognized only if a clear majority (well over 50 plus one of the voters) have freely chosen it, ideally in an unbiased referendum.

But if economists were confined to the ivory tower, we might be unbiased, but we would also be ignorant of practicalities and thus even less capable of predicting problems.

Design of experiments, using blocking to reduce the influence of confounding variables, and randomized assignment of treatments to subjects to allow unbiased estimates of treatment effects and experimental error.

Linked to the United Nations Chernobyl website, it is intended to provide unbiased and reliable information on the effects of the accident and the current situation in the affected areas.

UNIDO is also collaborating with CAB International to develop authoritative and unbiased biosafety knowledge management tools to assist in the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity Biosafety Clearing House Mechanism.

It s probably the only place on the web where you can find a group of diverse voices who write on issues from the Arab American perspective in a non secular, unbiased manner.

Then she came up and said, They ask me why I teach and I reply, 'Where could I find such splendid company?' There sits a statesman, strong, unbiased, wise another Daniel Webster, silver tongued.

Expressing its conviction that an unbiased and fair approach to human rights issues contributes to the promotion of international cooperation as well as to the effective promotion, protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms,

7. Expresses its conviction that an unbiased and fair approach to human rights issues contributes to the promotion of international cooperation as well as to the effective promotion, protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms

7. Expresses its conviction that an unbiased and fair approach to human rights issues contributes to the promotion of international cooperation as well as to the effective promotion, protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms

7. Expresses its conviction that an unbiased and fair approach to human rights issues contributes to the promotion of international cooperation as well as to the effective promotion, protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms

But I believe that corruption is not the main reason that the profession missed the crisis. Most economists have very little interaction with the corporate world, and these unbiased economists were no better at forecasting the crisis.

He may have been drawn to the period by the fact that he was descended from Oliver Cromwell and Henry Ireton, but his judgements are unbiased, and his appreciations of character reveal fine perception and broad sympathies.

Through all of this, Europe must present itself as an unbiased mediator. If negotiators on both sides view it as a credible broker of a lasting and balanced agreement, they may be more receptive to each other s concessions.

The same is true of the current peacekeeping mechanism, which is far from meeting the recognized standards of an unbiased attitude and should be replaced by an international mechanism of military and civil observers under an OSCE mandate.

This brings me to another point emphasized by the Plan of Action in Section III that the United Nations with the administering Powers ensure that all acts of self determination be preceded by adequate and unbiased campaigns of political education.

6. Stresses the continuing need for unbiased and objective information on the situation of human rights in all countries and the need to present this information in an impartial manner, including through the reports of the special rapporteurs and representatives, independent experts and working groups

All historical dramas are supposed to be unbiased and to say the truth without being biased to the point of view of a certain person or party. And this is an essential and integral part in delivering the ethical values of art and media.