inference

The value lies in the inferences drawn from your interactions, which are also stored on your phone—but that data does not belong to you.

To humans this is basic common sense, but algorithms have a hard time making causal inferences, especially without a large dataset or in a different context than the one they were trained in.

We’re talking about a small-scale research finding that was the truth in that finding, but because of the mechanics of statistical inference, it just won’t be right.

You can also find this inference on the web and at events each year around the world.

If a device is frequenting an NFL stadium, for example, you can infer that the user is a football fan, which allows a host of other inferences to form.

The inference that the child was treated as an equal in the community is unwarranted.

This is an example of abductive reasoning: an inference is made based on known facts, in an effort to explain them.

The reasoning task requires the mice to make an inference by exclusion.

Sen. Claire McCaskill  said the “innuendo and inference” reminded her of Joe McCarthy.

The inference of “it” is that Burns himself wandered a painful distance down a suicidal path after being bullied in school.

The inference which ought to have been drawn from these facts was that the prohibitory system was absurd.

No inference can be drawn from any comparisons between sexual crime of adults and sexual misbehaviour among children.

She evidently made up her mind that logic was a fallacious mode of inference, and determined to abandon it for the future.

Mrs. Stanley did not see her way clear to comment either upon the fact or the inference.

I beg you to believe me that there has been nothing between your wife and myself that could justify the inference you have drawn.