Sentences with phrase «for valid inferences»

At the 2017 Performance Matters» National Learners Conference, we are excited to offer a pre-conference option to support districts in using our solutions to evaluate the item - level statistics to ensure that the items support the intended purpose of the test, which begins to build the argument for valid inferences.

Not exact matches

But the defense would have been a valid one, corresponding with the facts, and Pilate could easily have drawn the inference for himself, that, whatever may have been intended by the claim to royalty (which Jesus did not disown), the Prisoner was not a danger to the state.

This doctrine is a necessary condition for the limitation of independent variety, which is, in turn, a necessary condition for «valid inductive inference» to predictions and to theories.

Keynes's argument as to why these two assumptions are required for «valid inductive inference» is crucial for resolving the conflict about the role of the doctrine of internal relations.

Let us reconsider this argument in face of the claim that such postulates as the Keynesian principle of limitation of independent variety constitute adequate grounding for «valid inductive inference».

The author attempts to elucidate what seems to be a necessary condition for the metaphysical understanding of «valid inductive inference» patterns.

We can now see how the doctrine of internal relations is involved for Whitehead, in a «valid inductive inference».

Certain necessary conditions for «valid inductive inference» (the limitation of independent variety) are grounded in further necessary conditions (internal relations) which constitute metaphysical presuppositions.

The «valid inductive inference» pattern (2.1)-- abstracted from the passages prior to the passage mentioning the uncertainty of analogy — suggests that Whitehead's meaning was simply that if there is analogy, a further condition for making the inference is still required, viz., the internal relationships between entities and environments.

This triangulation is critical for arriving at inferences or interpretations that are as valid and accurate as possible.

An important point to remember is that reliability is a necessary, but insufficient, condition for valid score - based inferences.

Vermont's state board also resolved that until Vermont has more experience with evidence from the SBACs, «the results of the SBAC assessment will not support reliable and valid inferences about student performance, and thus should not be used as the basis for any consequential purpose.»

This too has implications for validity in that, again, teachers or teachers» value - added estimates should fall in the same ranges, if and when using similar tests, if any valid inferences are to be made using value - added estimates.

Unfortunately, simply reproducing Forest 2006 using updated data, and ensuring that it was correctly processed, would not produce valid PDFs for the climate parameters, particularly climate sensitivity, since the statistical inference method is faulty.

And yet the last 13.7 years of non-statistically significant warming is suitable for making valid inferences...?

Whatever «common sense» means, if it means anything more than valid (by whatever rules apply to determine when an inference is a valid inference), is a mystery for another day.