Inference Topics
The topics below are usually included in the area of statistical inference.
- Statistical assumptions
- Statistical decision theory
- Estimation theory
- Statistical hypothesis testing
- Revising opinions in statistics
- Design of experiments, the analysis of variance, and regression
- Survey sampling
- Summarizing statistical data
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Famous quotes containing the word inference:
“I shouldn’t want you to be surprised, or to draw any particular inference from my making speeches, or not making speeches, out there. I don’t recall any candidate for President that ever injured himself very much by not talking.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
“Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend. The process of justification is the delicate one of making mutual adjustments between rules and accepted inferences; and in the agreement achieved lies the only justification needed for either.”
—Nelson Goodman (b. 1906)