statistical inference: To draw conclusions from data. (highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072480823/student_view0/glossary.html)

Good luck!

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Note added at 17 mins (2006-08-03 14:55:55 GMT)
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Here are a couple of close examples of the use of the expression in English:

[PDF] Derivation of Asset Price Equations Through Statistical InferenceFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
Derivation of Asset Price Equations Through Statistical Inference. Gunduz Caginalp, Vladimira Ilieva, David Porter and Vernon Smith ...
www.pitt.edu/~caginalp/pub83.pdf

AAMR History The assessment of support needs is subsequently done through statistical inference. The inferred needs are derived by researchers using a combination of ...
www.aamr.org/Reading_Room/SIS_Ashbaugh.shtml

MIC Communications News... files and pages as well as the total volume of data on the Web are estimated through statistical inference based on this information. ...
www.soumu.go.jp/joho_tsusin/eng/Releases/NewsLetter/Vol15/V...

[PDF] GLOBAL FLUVIAL SEDIMENT RETENTION BY REGISTERED DAM SYSTEMSFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
storage) and uses statistical inference to assess the impact of the remaining >44000. smaller reservoirs (SRs). Information on the LRs was linked to a ...
www.cosis.net/abstracts/EAE03/11107/EAE03-J-11107.pdf