inference

plural inferences · alternative misspelling inferrence

1. uncountableThe act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
2. countableThat which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.

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   A key part of McCarthy’s argument, as made in other settings, such as a Larry King evening news show and on a now-infamous Oprah episode, focuses on the fact that children receive more vaccines now than ever before, which she believes corresponds with a rise in autism rates. However, as scientists and others who reject fallacious inferences point out, correlation is not causation.

   2018 January 2, Samantha D. Gottlieb, “8. Mothers and Gardasil”, in Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine. Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 124

   Synonyms: determination, illation, verdict, award, censure, choice, opinion, conclusion

3. uncountableartificial intelligenceOutput generated by a trained machine learning model as it applies learned patterns to new data.
4. countableartificial intelligenceAn instance or example of this, such as a prediction, classification, decision, etc.