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inferential

[in-fuh-ren-shuhl] / ˌɪn fəˈrɛn ʃəl /


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After a further two-day hearing over costs, he made Friday's initial costs decision, while again criticising the claimant's case as "speculative and substantially inferential".

From Barron's Aug. 21, 2026

Due to the tension between inferential learning and privacy concerns, there is ultimately a societal question of which is more important in which contexts.

From Salon Jun. 1, 2024

The intervention incorporates comprehension strategy instruction in both reading and math, focusing and decoding, phonological awareness, vocabulary development, inferential thinking, contextualized learning and numeracy.

From Science Daily Apr. 29, 2024

The claimants' lawyer, David Sherborne, told the court on Wednesday that the case against MGN was "inferential", stressing that phone-hacking and other unlawful information gathering was a covert practice.

From Reuters Jun. 28, 2023

The theoretically more interesting field of inferential statistics uses probability theory to make predictions, to estimate important characteristics of a population, and to test the validity of hypotheses.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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