Sentence examples for plausible inferences from inspiring English sources

However, in both experiments, validity and plausibility were used as within-subjects factors and we demonstrated that stock-brokers show a decrement in performance with implausible compared to the plausible inferences, whereas the control group was not affected by the conclusions' plausibility.

Our reviewer, William T. Vollmann, said this biography "sparkles with shrewdly plausible inferences mortared into a compelling narrative".

Second, the approach extends classical inference, based on the likelihood of the data given a null hypothesis about the parameters, to more plausible inferences about the parameters of the model given the data.

But the Mohists also place some intuitively plausible inferences in the "this and not-so" category.

Whatever belief is, it should be possible for rational agents to make plausible inferences about the beliefs of other agents.

Therefore, we only make plausible inferences on the mechanisms underlying the regulation of tissue insulin sensitivity; clearly, ad hoc designed clinical studies are needed to confirm our findings.

v. 2. Patterns of plausible inference.

Pearl, J. Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference (Morgan Kaufmann, 1998).

Van Horn, K. S. Constructing a logic of plausible inference: a guide to Cox's theorem.

2.2: "More danger, more honor". See George Pólya, Patterns of Plausible Inference, 2nd ed., Princeton University Press 1968, vol. 2, p. 126.

He described this work in his book Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference (1988).