Sentence examples for defensible inferences from inspiring English sources
The qualitative analysis involved developing a thematic framework that captured all the qualitative data, alongside participants' tumour groups and time from diagnosis, to identify associations between separate themes and from which defensible inferences could be made.
Besides the close connection with empirical adequacy (see Sect. 3), Sober (1988) has shown that parsimony is only a defensible inference condition when it captures salient aspects of the phenomena being inferred about, which is in turn only evaluable if the relevant well-confirmed generalizations describing them are available.
Hence, analyses based on the design-induced distribution provide the most defensible basis for making inferences from the sample to the target population.
The primary message from our empirical exercise is that the use of a "cognitive ability measure" as an error-free independent variable in a wage regression can lead to quite different inferences than a more defensible approach (MESE) that treats cognitive ability as a latent construct.
As the standard story has it, science increasingly acquired understandings of how nature unaided by deliberate intent and planning could produce virtually any R proposed, and thus while (2) might continue to hold for virtually any human artifact a having any intended R one might please, (3) — and consequently the inference to (4) — became progressively less defensible.
The course focuses on statistical methods that are relevant in research, such as how to design experiments to maximize inference potential, how to infer mathematical models from measurements, and how to draw defensible conclusions from datasets.
Were our actions defensible?
This reluctance is defensible.
Is it scientifically defensible?
"These cases are eminently defensible.
