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inference
noun(in-fer-ence)
the act or process of inferring : such as
inference
noun(in-fer-ence)
the act of passing from one proposition, statement, or judgment considered as true to another whose truth is believed to follow from that of the former
inference
noun(in-fer-ence)
the act of passing from statistical sample data to generalizations (as of the value of population parameters) usually with calculated degrees of certainty

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