child care

1. the daytime care of children by a person or organization while parents are at work.

2. the full-time residential care of children who have no other home or whose home life is seriously troubled.

3. broadly, the care of children of any age in any setting.

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May 10th 2024

estimator

n. a quantity calculated from the values in a sample according to some rule and used to give an approximation of the value in a population. For example, the sample mean or average is an estimator for the population mean; the value of the sample mean is the estimate.