Sentences with phrase «of valid inference»

In mathematics, it is the study of valid inferences within some formal language.

This type of data is needed to accurately describe changes in diversity as students move between sectors because there is significant variation in student demographics at the school level that is often obscured when examining the issue at higher levels of aggregation (e.g. comparing charters as a group to surrounding school district or metropolitan area) and can complicate the drawing of valid inferences about the relationship between public school choice and racial sorting.

Teacher or student anxiety can interfere with the drawing of valid inferences about what should normally occur in the classroom.

Not exact matches

The relationship between any entity and its environment is an internal one, and the inductive inference is «valid» ultimately in virtue of this internal relation between entity and environment: 1

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.

It would seem, then, that a possible construal of valid induction» (inferences to predictions and theories scientists find to be good inductions) might be the following inference pattern.

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.

1 The important internal relationship in the valid inductive inference pattern is not the relationship of prehension as Gutting suggests (PS 1:174); rather, the relevant internal relations axe those between entity and environmental order.

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».

Thus it seems that any explication of «valid inductive inference» requires as a necessary condition the metaphysical doctrine of internal relations.

The intent of this paper has not been to provide a metaphysical justification of induction but, rather, to attempt the very limited task of elucidating what seems to be a necessary condition of «valid inductive inference» patterns and to insist that metaphysical doctrines are not irrelevant to the understanding of «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.

These passages suffice to show that Whitehead did not accept inference pattern (1); clearly, «valid inductions» do not essentially involve inferences of increasing generality.

Albany County Judge Peter Lynch tossed the case against Ortt, saying there was «no valid line of reasoning and permissible inferences which could lead a rational grand jury» to issue the indictment against the senator.

A successful test would therefore require isolating enough of these scarce cells to make statistically valid inferences about the tumor, often at a stage when the tumor itself is growing and changing rapidly.

Validity, or rather evidencing that something from which inferences are drawn is in fact valid, is MUCH more complicated than simply running these types of correlations.

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.

The bottom line is to question and critically consume everything, and everyone who feels qualified to write about particular things without enough expertise in most everything, including in this case good and professional journalism, this area of educational research, and what it means to make valid inferences and then responsibly share them out with the public.

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.»

They do not want us to remember that the SBAC has not been externally validated and therefore, according to the Vermont State Board of Education, does «not support valid and reliable inferences about student performance.»

Accordingly, this research can help future consumers be proactive in terms of ensuring, as best they can, that results might yield as valid inferences as possible.

Klees concludes: «The bottom line is that regardless of technical sophistication, the use of VAM is never [and, perhaps never will be] «accurate, reliable, and valid» and will never yield «rigorously supported inferences» as expected and desired.

General inferences of what the Court meant, even if valid, does not trump what the Court explicitly said.

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 believOf 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 believof them were seriously flawed, as I have reason to believe.

I just posted a two - part set of blog entries explaining why I think MT samples do not support valid inferences relating to cultural cognition and like forms of motivated reasoning.

I admire scientists and the scientific way of knowing but I am not myself trained as a scientist, except inasmuch as my undergraduate training in sociology at a top U.S. university exposed me to statistical inference and standards of valid reasoning about social phenomena.

It's the mass of all the evidence, all the inference, all the work to simplify the assumptions needed to draw valid conclusions, all the efforts at parsimony of exceptions, all the care to ensure the universality of the explanation that is most accurate, and therefore most nearly true based on all we know that is what proves AGW, and disproves the Stadium Wave.

As such little that is discussed from inference OF the «graph» is infact based on a VALID study.

Looking over the short note on climate matters by John Reid that was promoted on Quadrant Online recently — it is very clear that a collection of notions do not a valid scientific inference make.

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

We're talking such a short period of time, it's not possible it seems to my admittedly untrained mind, to make valid inferences with respect to whether the climate's doing anything unusual..

See the links: - http://www.climateimc.org/?q=node/312 http://www.climateimc.org/?q=node/348 In regard to «ice core data», there is little in valid methodology that can outline the atmosphere of 650,000 years ago, as has already been shown, due to poor methodology and applications of predetermination (so often seen behind attempts to factualise similar «data inferences»).

There are statistical tests (mentioned throughout this thread) you should use to test the independence of these series and to tell if they are the result of deterministic or stochastic processes, and ultimately how to draw valid statistical inferences from them.

Bob, There are statistical tests (mentioned throughout this thread) you should use to test the independence of these [NH versus SH] series and to tell if they are the result of deterministic or stochastic processes, and ultimately how to draw valid statistical inferences from them.

It is well known that one can not draw valid statistical inferences from such a small number of observations.

If all you mean by common sense is a valid process of inference drawing, then I agree with you.