inference

Like sleep staging, it’s an inference, not a direct measurement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

But that is an unmistakable inference from constitutional structure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Because some of the inference process takes place through diffraction, important parameters of the optical model are effectively embedded within the hardware.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Larger AI models and the data-intensive process of inference, or when AI models make predictions based on learned patterns, however, “increasingly prioritize density, performance, endurance and supply certainty over the lowest absolute price,” Cassidy said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

They showed me how to be precise in notation, acute in investigation, and rational in inference.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

"By combining the model with what we see on the surface, we can make inferences about Ariel's past eccentricity and how thick the ocean might have been."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Moreover, one need not rely on inferences from data.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

In June, passenger demand fell 1.7% globally, or 0.6% excluding the Middle East, according to the International Air Transport Association, although Nastro said it’s difficult to draw inferences about U.S. trends from global data.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

They can analyze data and make predictive inferences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Let me end, then, with a couple of additional bad inferences which are further suggestive of the role that innumeracy—in the guise of fallacious logic—plays in pseudoscience.

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