inferential

• “Surveying a subset and generalizing the population from which it's drawn is what we call inferential statistics; it's a cornerstone of modern science and social research.”

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• “This group of techniques is commonly known as inferential statistics.”

  Hypothesis testing

• “That is simple race-baiting by inference, what Stuart hall, the great intellectual, calls inferential racism.”

  CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2008

• “Causes of the latter sort may be called inferential or hypothetical causes to distinguish them from those which are perceived.”

  The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia

• “These I may call inferential marks by the wayside, and with what is to follow are surely corroborative evidence strong enough to enable me to assume that I am on the right trail, and that "_Cheekanoo_" and John”

  John Eliot's First Indian Teacher and Interpreter Cockenoe-de-Long Island and The Story of His Career from the Early Records

• “-- The Sûtras proceed to dispose of the so-called inferential marks.”

  The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48

• “When this The fi rst three reasons in the list include the possi - probability is calculated under the alternative bility of terminating the trial based on an interim hypothesis, this (conditional) probability is called inferential analysis.”

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• “It would only explain the existence of those penumbral connections if it was part of the meaning of names and demonstratives that they fill some kind of inferential role.”

  The Problem of the Many

• “Now here's the key "inferential" point: the macaque brain is only about one-fourth as large as ours, and our neocortex is much larger than the macaque's neocortex, but neuroanato-mists typically agree that the structures in the neocortex of macaques and humans correspond relatively well despite these differences.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect With Others'

• “And I would always be very wary of acting on the kind of inferential intelligence that the United States tends to collect.”

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