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As shown, inferential meaning associated with selectiveness is different from Grice's conversational implicatures in that speakers do not want the hearers to work out anything other than the literal meaning of the utterances.

Grice's maxims and the principle of selectiveness: an advertising language perspective (1)

In girls with high levels of rumination, a pessimistic inferential style about the self predicted a past history of depressive episodes," he said.

Some teens prone to hopelessness depression. (Pessimism, low Self-Esteem)

Distributions that are severely skewed affect the choice of appropriate descriptive or summary statistics and the choice of inferential statistical techniques.

Statistical analyses: making sense of them in the research report. (Research Corner)

The chapters on inferential statistics cover topics in a more detailed manner.

Using Statistics to Understand the Environment. (Book Reviews)

Lest there be any confusion, let me stress here that the clause of an inferential corresponds to the focus, not the clause, of a canonical cleft sentence.

Discourse functions of inferential sentences(*)

In this scenario, people were unintentionally contributing to the sedimentary record, and the surface on which the remains were deposited is today an inferential one.

Microscopic views of Swiss Lake Villages

ldots] I call these interpretative moves inferential walks" (32).

The Story Must Go On and On: The Fantastic, Narration, and Intertextuality in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Jazz

So that although nobody ever says that they are concerned about prostitution because they are worried about the changing relations between the sexes, nevertheless I can draw inferential connections between anxieties present in the discourses even though that link is not explicitly made by the participants.

Anxiety and social explanation: some anxieties about anxiety

Not to be ignored, also, for a clear understanding of believed-in knowledge claims is the availability of scientifically adequate descriptions of reasoning or inferential action.

Believed-In Imaginings: The Narrative Construction of Reality

As for the Heideggerian connection, points of alleged agreement are less evidence that the two men were co-conspirators than they are expressions of Strauss's conviction that Heideggerian nihilism is not some inferential slip along the way but represents instead the ineluctable slide from Enlightenment optimism to postmodern despair.

Straussed out

Among the 21 inferential tests that are covered are the single and two sample t-tests, the Wilcoxon test, the Mann--Whitney U-test, the [chi square] test, the binomial sign test, analysis of variance with multiple comparisons, factorial analysis of variance, the Kruskal--Wallis test, the Cochran Q-test, and the Friedman test.

Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Procedures

Moore is managing partner of Inferential Focus, a New York City-based market intelligence firm.