inference

noun

Etymology: From Latin inferentia. Morphologically infer + -ence.

1. The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
2. That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.

   “A key part of McCarthy’s argument, as made in other settings, such as a Larry King evening news show and on a now-infamous Oprah episode, focuses on the fact that children receive more vaccines now than ever before, which she believes corresponds with a rise in autism rates. However, as scientists and others who reject fallacious inferences point out, correlation is not causation.”

3. Output generated by a trained machine learning model as it applies learned patterns to new data.
4. An instance or example of this, such as a prediction, classification, decision, etc.