"misestimate" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1846, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Rationcinative and Inductive, volume IV, page 560:",
          "text": "[W]e shall infallibly bestow a disproportionate attention upon those which our theory takes into account, while we mis-estimate the rest, and probably underrate their importance.",
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          "ref": "2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 12:",
          "text": "However, in the absence of real data on actual language use in the aural-oral landscape, there will always exist the possibility to misestimate such impacts.",
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        "To estimate erroneously."
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          "ref": "1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 76:",
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          "text": "To illustrate the nature of this problem, a misestimate of 0.01 on a favorite whose true winning probability is 0.20 is, in percentage terms, quite small compared to a misestimate of 0.01 on a long shot whose true winning probability is 0.04.",
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