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Inference in sentence

34 examples of Inference in a sentence

So let's think about the inference.
And the key idea to Bayesian inference is you have two sources of information from which to make your inference.
And what it means is we really are Bayesian inference machines.
Below awareness, with no requirement for any kind of motivated processing, the brain fills in information that was not there, not originally stored, from inference, from speculation, from sources of information that came to you, as the observer, after the observation.
Because if we could demonstrate that genesis had occurred not once, but twice, independently, in our solar system, then that means, by inference, it has occurred a staggering number of times throughout the universe and its 13.7 billion year history.
So the problem of inference, that is, figuring out that the picture of a bird is a bird, is this one: it's where y is the unknown and w and x are known.
This is inference.
It's called Bayesian inference.
Which takes us to the other forgotten terms in Bayesian inference.
And one of the reasons why I think that is will be helped by things like graphics and visualization and inference tools, but I also think a big part of it is going to be having better interfaces, to be able to drill down into this kind of data, while still thinking about the big picture here.
So the inference we are deriving from this, and several such experiments, is that dynamic information processing, or motion processing, serves as the bedrock for building the rest of the complexity of visual processing; it leads to visual integration and eventually to recognition.
That last one is just an inference of mine: we don't actually SEE him torture puppy dogs.
But Hamada’s inference that this illustrates the inherent dangers of monetary finance is not credible.
But that inference is seriously mistaken.
Logic and statistics do not authorize the inference, but a stubborn intimation whispers to us that the coming of another Michelangelo or Shakespeare or Mozart is doubtful.
His inference was that, unless Party leaders were careful, this capitalist bird would literally burst out of its socialist cage, spelling an end to China's Marxist-Leninist revolution.
Those who defend such widespread use of prescription drugs insist that a significant part of the population is under-treated and, by inference, under-medicated.
Its popularity is based on the fact that it addresses key problems in statistical inference.
But, while this has been repeatedly documented in many cases, the inference that redistribution is equivalent to a shock absorber is wrong.
There is also the insidious inference that someone who chooses to call herself Chinese-American is clinging to a non-American identity, whereas someone who chooses to call herself, say, Italian-American, is above suspicion.
Plenty of evidence suggests that we are in something of a golden age for citizen speculation, documentation, and inference that takes shape – usually on the Internet – and spreads virally around the globe.
Deductive inference enables us to predict effects if we know the principles (the rule) and the cause.
Abductive inference is pragmatic, looking only at outcomes, guessing at the rule, and identifying the cause.
However, according to the international case law, one can prove by inference a defendant’s state of mind only if the inference is the only reasonable one that can be drawn based on the evidence.
The conclusion that Shaikh draws is a small one, perhaps because the broader inference is too unpalatable for most people.
The traveler had turned his face from one sister to the other, as they had spoken in succession, and an almost imperceptible movement of the muscles of his mouth betrayed a new emotion, as he playfully inquired of the younger,-"May I venture to ask what inference you would draw from that fact?"Frances blushed yet deeper at this direct appeal to her opinions upon a subject on which she had incautiously spoken in the presence of a stranger; but finding an answer necessary, after some little hesitation, and with a good deal of stammering in her manner, she replied,-"Only - only - sir - my sister and myself sometimes differ in our opinions of the prowess of the British."
But I do not mean by this to draw the inference that no credit is to be allowed for the work of translating, for a man may employ himself in ways worse and less profitable to himself.
The marks of hairpowder on his coat-collar, and the ill-washed and worse tied white neckerchief round his throat, showed that he had not found leisure since he left the court to make any alteration in his dress; while the slovenly style of the remainder of his costume warranted the inference that his personal appearance would not have been very much improved if he had.
I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and inference.
Is it, then, stretching our inference too far to say that the presentation was on the occasion of the change?"