inference Definition
in·fer·ence (in′fər əns)
noun
- an act or the process of inferring
- a conclusion or opinion arrived at by inferring
Etymology: ML inferentia
inference Synonyms
inference
n.
A judgment
deduction, conclusion, summation, answer; see judgment 3, result.A concluding
A supposition
presumption, conjecture, surmise; see assumption 1, opinion 1, thought 2.
inference Law Definition
n
A logical conclusion drawn from available facts; the
process of arriving at such a conclusion.
inference Usage Examples
Preposition: of
discrimination: Employers need to bear in mind that tribunals may draw inferences of discrimination from the arrangements adopted by the employers.
Converse of object
- draw: No skill in drawing inferences will avail him there.
- justify: Possession of nuclear weapons may indeed justify an inference of preparedness to use them.
- derive: By manipulating the pointers, subjects can derive inferences that are not explicit in the text.
- license: That claim would seem at most to license the very different inference that we cannot tell whether they tell the truth or lie.
- perform: We use Bayesian networks ( BN ) to perform probabilistic inference.
- permit: However, the Inquiry is concerned that current categorisations used in the SSCSS survey do not permit clear inferences to be drawn.
Adjective modifier
- inductive: Such a method is that founded on inductive inference.
- bayesian: Earlier studies have used Bayesian inference under simplifying assumptions.
- nonparametric: Conference on Nonparametric Inference and Probability with Applications to Science, Ann Arbor, Michigan ( September 2005 ).
- deductive: Hence, the attempt to rescue inductive inferences by grafting deductive inferences onto them disguises rather than solves the problem of induction.
- statistical: The model's regime probabilities provide an optimal statistical inference of the turning point of the European business cycle.
- phylogenetic: A new Monte Carlo Markov chain method has the capacity to perform Bayesian phylogenetic inference in a relaxed clock framework.
Modifies a noun
- making: These notions describe properties of the processes that underlie inference making.
- engine: The inference engine will assign the outcome ' credit limit is low ' , the maximum MV from all the fired rules.
- algorithm: We shall focus on Hidden Markov models and Phylogenetic inference algorithms for Comparative Genomics.
- rule: Certain macros are used by the default inference rules to permit the inclusion of optional matter in any resulting commands.
- mechanism: The data is dependent on the kind of inference mechanism used.
- step: In this way, a chain of inference steps will lead to a value for the goal being found.
Noun used with modifier
type: This should help finding the origin of type errors without detailed knowledge of type inference on the user side.
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