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in·fer·ence

(in'fĕr-ens),
The logical process of passing from observations and axioms to generalizations; in statistics, the development of generalizations from sample data, usually with calculated degrees of uncertainty.
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A number of network inference methods to infer gene regulatory networks from time-series gene expression data have been developed.
We use J-measure to measure the quality of the rules to infer the attributes (e.g., the educational background) in the user profiles.
(401) Similarly, if the accessory knows that the perpetrator is armed with a lethal weapon, has a bad temper, has been in prison before, and will do anything to avoid going back to prison, then the jury could infer that the accessory knew that the perpetrator conditionally intended to use lethal force and tacitly authorized it by joining the underlying joint enterprise.
(1996) found that Latino bilingual students who are strong readers of English developed unique strategies to infer and construct meaning in context even though they frequently encounter unknown words.
Under those circumstances, it would be reasonable to infer that packaging materials, scales, and other evidence of drug trafficking would be found at the arrestee's residence.
Our most recent one, called Gamut, employs sophisticated Al algorithms, such as plan recognition and decision-tree learning, to infer sophisticated behaviors from a limited number of examples.
The Supreme Court affirmed the lower court ruling, noting it does not believe it is "reasonable to infer that the information is given with an implied understanding of confidentiality in all cases."
Among the topics are the history of fish migration research, life histories of catadromous fishes, microchemical and schlero-chronological analyses used to infer fish migration, using drift nets to infer fish transport and migration strategies in inland aquatic ecosystems, and archival and pop-up satellite archival tags for investigating oceanodromous fish movements.
What a "contact" is under the statute is very broadly defined, namely "Any oral, written or electronic communication with the governmental entity under circumstances where a reasonable person would infer that the communication was intended to influence the governmental procurement."
Measurements from this ground-truth site are being used to calibrate satellites operated by the United States, Japan, France, and Germany that are designed to infer what is going on at the ocean surface.
However, because [is greater than] 70% of bacterial proteins have orthologs in other organisms (60,61), one can leverage extensive knowledge of function from the model organisms to infer function for a pathogen's genome.
It ordinarily is reasonable to infer that the driver of a vehicle that contains drugs knows that the drugs are present in the car because the driver has control over the vehicle.
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