Mr. Hojamiryan said confusion accounted for the inaccurate initial estimates.

But it is not clear whether the discrepancy is a result of a faulty 1990 tally, inaccurate earlier estimates or both.

Risk analysis is certainly not a hard science, as the notoriously inaccurate estimates of 100,000 American fatalities in the Persian Gulf war illustrated.

This can be used to identify areas/phases where inaccurate estimates consistently occur.

In 2002, the number of Avokaya speakers in South Sudan was estimated to be 40,000, replacing the inaccurate 1982 estimate of 15,000.

Yearly figures for the early 19th century are better documented, but even they are inaccurate estimates.

Consider the inaccurate estimates of federal budget surpluses and deficits over the last five years.

Two forms gave a highly inaccurate estimate of how much tax he owed for the year.

This even applies to a criterion such as unemployment, for which there is no EU-wide definition and which is therefore bound to lead to inaccurate estimates.

He believes that both issues represented a serious problem that was blown completely out of proportion by inaccurate estimates about the future.