Sentences with phrase «inferential method»

But evolution is based on the weaker inferential method of extra-polation and not the stronger method of interpolation.

Not exact matches

Stewart Dougherty is the creator of Inferential Analytics, a forecasting method that applies to events proprietary, time - tested principles of human instinct, desire and action.

In the practice of Inferential Analytics, the forecasting method we developed and use, we pay rapt attention when gallows humor becomes gallows fact, because it invariably signals that something is seriously wrong.

While Spinoza does not necessarily reveal what his aims and strategy are, his highly formalized method is supposed not only to guide but to show that the inferential consequences are also necessary, given the necessary first starting point.

Using basic inferential statistics such as the methods outlined here, legal professionals will be able to interrogate the statistical validity of their data and evaluate the significance of various quantitative legal metrics.

Specific analytical methods included descriptive and inferential statistics and ethnography.

The religious attitudes of subjects were tested by Alport religious orientation inventory and their attachment style by Shiver and Hezen's adult attachment test and were tested according to the results of descriptive and inferential statistics methods.

Also, we used advanced statistical methods to test multiple mediation, methods that are well - suited to smaller sample sizes, do not rely on the assumption of a normal sampling distribution, and limit the number of inferential tests so that the likelihood of Type 1 error is reduced (MacKinnon et al., 2002; Preacher & Hayes, 2004; Shrout & Bolger, 2002).