Associations to the word «Inferential»

Wiktionary

INFERENTIAL, adjective. Of, pertaining to, or derived using inference
INFERENTIAL STATISTICS, noun. (statistics) A branch of statistics studying statistical inference—drawing conclusions about a population from a random sample drawn from it, or, more generally, about a random process from its observed behavior during a finite period of time.

Dictionary definition

INFERENTIAL, adjective. Relating to or having the nature of illation or inference; "the illative faculty of the mind".
INFERENTIAL, adjective. Of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion.
INFERENTIAL, adjective. Resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference; "an illative conclusion"; "inferential reasoning".
INFERENTIAL, adjective. Derived or capable of being derived by inference.
INFERENTIAL, adjective. Based on interpretation; not directly expressed.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky