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inference
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inference
a conclusion about a population derived from a sample of the population.


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His use of cognition, he explains, goes beyond rational inference to include perception, interpretation, value judgments, morality, emotions, and feelings--thus siding with Spinoza rather than Descartes on the mind/body dualism question.
Statistics is a value-flee science, concerned with rational inference and prediction.
Although everything in nature is related by cause and effect, the bases for rational inference depend on the conclusions of ground-and-consequent relations.
 
 
 
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