Estimate versus Compute

Evening all;
  We are starting to have issues with our analyze routines running too long on our databases.  

We are trying to come up with a plan that says "At X number of rows and Y cardinality, start running with Estimated Statistics".  

Does anyone have any guidlines on this at all that I could read/lookat/use ?  

Thanks  

Kevin

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