inferential
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Reading: Literature - High School
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After a further two-day hearing over costs, he made Friday's initial costs decision, while again criticising the claimant's case as "speculative and substantially inferential".
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Due to the tension between inferential learning and privacy concerns, there is ultimately a societal question of which is more important in which contexts.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2024
The intervention incorporates comprehension strategy instruction in both reading and math, focusing and decoding, phonological awareness, vocabulary development, inferential thinking, contextualized learning and numeracy.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024
The claimants' lawyer, David Sherborne, told the court on Wednesday that the case against MGN was "inferential", stressing that phone-hacking and other unlawful information gathering was a covert practice.
From Reuters ● Jun. 28, 2023
The theoretically more interesting field of inferential statistics uses probability theory to make predictions, to estimate important characteristics of a population, and to test the validity of hypotheses.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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