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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats