Despite evidence for multi-system involvement, cardiac involvement in Parkinson's disease has only been inferred from statistical associations (Zesiewicz et al, 2004; Perez-Lloret et al, 2014).
Since functional connectivity is inferred from statistical dependencies between physiological measures of brain activity (i.e. correlations between the dependent variables), it can be estimated without an experimental manipulation.
In C. elegans, the action of molecular mechanisms on aging can be inferred from their statistical effects on the distribution of lifespans within populations.
The width of the wave packet is not an observable - it has to be inferred from the statistical distribution of many measurements [61].
They both concluded that a causal association between preterm births and maternal/residential proximity to the Tar Ponds could not be inferred from the statistical analysis.
Both kinds of processes, link dynamics and gene duplications, can be inferred from a statistical analysis of the network data, and their rates can be estimated consistently with independent information.
Stability and performance of a system can be inferred from the evolution of statistical characteristic of system states.
The stability and performance of a system can be inferred from the evolution of statistical characteristics of the system's states.
