inference

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation

3. 3
   noun

   The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.

4. 4
   noun

   Output generated by a trained machine learning model as it applies learned patterns to new data.

5. 5
   noun

   An instance or example of this, such as a prediction, classification, decision, etc.

Etymology

From Latin inferentia. Morphologically infer + -ence.