1 2 "inference", Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary (11 ed.), Springfield, Massachusetts, USA: Merriam-Webster, Inc., 2003, the act of passing from one proposition, statement, or judgment considered as true to another whose truth is believed to follow from that of the former
1 2 Last, John M. (2001), "inference", A Dictionary of Epidemiology (4 ed.), Oxford University Press, ISBN978-0-19-514169-6, The process of passing from observations and axioms to generalizations. In statistics, the development of generalization from sample data, usually with calculated degrees of uncertainty.
