"Inference methods" refer to techniques or processes used to draw conclusions, predictions, or explanations based on available evidence or information. They help in making educated guesses or logical deductions to understand or solve a problem.
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Of course, even if your various studies did support each other it would not mean that their conclusions were valid, if the statistical
inference methods used in all of them were seriously flawed, as I have reason to believe.
Genomic polymorphism data are required to develop more
robust inference methods, and will enable us to study phenomena that are intrinsically genomic (e.g., the correlations in Figure 7D and 7E).
«By using this approach, we first tried identify the structural modules of well - studied proteins by using as input solely their sequence information and using
statistical inference methods.