Sentences with phrase «valid inference»

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.

But Webster's statement is a valid inference based on the underlying model that they are working with.

Climate sensitivity is too simple a concept to reflect the observations, on any valid inference.

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

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.

Conducting assessment item analysis to make valid inferences that will drive subsequent teaching and learning;

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.

Although they agreed that it would allow them to make valid inferences about students» ability to construct grammatically correct sentences, they determined that it did not provide enough information to allow them to assess student progress in developing compelling arguments.

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.

Above all, we need reliable, consistent and meaningful data that we can really dig into, from which valid inferences can be drawn and that fundamentally ensures we are looking at the whole child.

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

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.

That is, you can not make valid inferences from a student's test score unless the test is reliable.

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.»

Rather, research evidence must support their uses, otherwise valid inferences can not be made, or more importantly accepted as valid.

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.

Now to be clear, here, I do think that not just «grossly ineffective» but also simply «bad teachers» should be fired, but the indicators used to do this must yield valid inferences, as based on the evidence, as critically and appropriately consumed by the parties involved, after which valid and defensible decisions can and should be made.

To make valid inferences about learning, teachers need to allow students to work to their strengths.

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.

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.

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..

Not exact matches

All logical and valid questions and yet ripe with a flawed inference.

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.

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

It would seem, then, that «valid inductive inferences» are from particulars to particulars; theories are «redundant» (2:234).

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.

The completed Whiteheadian «valid inductive inference» pattern thus requires that we specify an internal relatedness between ae1 º and Eº, and between ae1 and E, in our diagram (2.1).

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.

This section details the different inferences that are commonly drawn from EMG studies and the extent to which they are valid.

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

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.

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

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.»

Tests aren't valid or invalid; inferences are.

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.

Making valid and consistent inferences about school effectiveness from multiple measures.

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 believe.