Sentence examples for standards of inference from inspiring English sources

That is to say, reasonable people can disagree on their standards of inference and epistemic justification.

Levi observes that scientists commit themselves to certain standards of inference when they become a member of the profession.

Value judgments may be implicit in the standards of scientific inference, but not in the daily work of an individual scientist.

This leads to non-standard forms of inference that involve several situations at the same time and stress the aboutness of information.

The foundations of design-based inference were laid out by Neyman (1934) and it is the standard mode of inference in most statistical surveys, including sample-based national forest inventories (Tomppo et al. 2010) that are carried out in a large number of countries.

Such methods can be prone to selection bias, and standard design-based methods of inference cannot be used to ensure approximately unbiased estimators of population quantities or to provide associated measures of precision.

We suggest that such an inference from stablest constituent to a stable kind of entity of which it is part is a central, very common, and problematic style of inference within the standard model.

Rare examples of inference in non-standard scenarios can be found in O'Ryan et al. (1998) including three populations and two successive divergences, or Estoup et al. (2004) (10 populations that sequentially diverged with initial bottlenecks and exchanging migrants with neighbouring populations).

We evaluated a panel of standard statistical inference techniques, as well as variations of the protein features considered.

Although he regularly endorsed standard tests and rating scales, Roth stressed they were no substitute for 'the clinical form of inquiry' and should merely be seen as 'safeguards to ensure that standards of precision, comprehensiveness and logical inference are maintained at a high level' (ibid.: 435).

In this model, viruses lack sequences and so standard phylogenetic inference of the evolutionary relationships among strains is impossible.