Inferences are steps in reasoning, moving from premises to logical consequences; etymologically, the word infer means to "carry forward". Inference is...

and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or logical truths. It studies how conclusions follow from premises due...

In philosophy of logic and logic, a rule of inference, inference rule or transformation rule is a logical form consisting of a function which takes premises...

Bayesian inference (/ˈbeɪziən/ BAY-zee-ən or /ˈbeɪʒən/ BAY-zhən) is a method of statistical inference in which Bayes' theorem is used to update the probability...

Statistical inference is the process of using data analysis to infer properties of an underlying distribution of probability. Inferential statistical...

system. The main difference between causal inference and inference of association is that causal inference analyzes the response of an effect variable...

Type inference, sometimes called type reconstruction,: 320  refers to the automatic detection of the type of an expression in a formal language. These...

Deductive reasoning is the mental process of drawing valid inferences. An inference is valid if its conclusion follows logically from its premises, meaning...

Frequentist inference is a type of statistical inference based in frequentist probability, which treats “probability” in equivalent terms to “frequency”...

In the field of artificial intelligence, an inference engine is a software component of an intelligent system that applies logical rules to the knowledge...