"can infer from" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you want to draw a conclusion based upon the evidence or information you have. For example: We can infer from the data that the company's profits have decreased over the last year.
And what you can't read from these tables, but can infer from other C.B.O.
Unemployment, as we can infer from the use of antidepressants in places like Blaenau Gwent, makes you depressed.
What we know about them, then, is only as much as we can infer from a biased documentary record.
Instead, Eagleman is interested in the limits of our own knowledge, and what we can infer from what we do not know.
"The court can infer from this that there has been such a delay that is not a genuine bid for vindication," Evans said.
One can infer, from today's, Sunday's, paper, for example, that you identify people with legal backgrounds when the topic is legal.
(This is as best as I can infer from census data: the area corresponds to census tract 62.02 in the District of Columbia.
For the Harvard economists, dark matter is foreign wealth, the existence of which we can infer from the income it provides.How much of it is out there?
The events in Pynchon's story take place in the spring of 1970, something we can infer from frequent references to the Manson trial and the N.B.A. finals between the Lakers and the Knicks.
One can infer from her comments that Renee seems to have liked Romeo, and that her attention began to wander somewhere in Act III, when elaborate heart doodles appear in the margins.
We can infer from the historical record that bin Laden's comrades either couldn't come up with a better idea or didn't want to annoy him by questioning his brainstorm.
