has part precedes has_specified_output conclusion textual entity planned process statistical test hypothesis drawing a conclusion assess statistical evidence statistical inference The definition cited from Wikipedia is from: Upton, G., Cook, I. (2008) Oxford Dictionary of Statistics, OUP. ISBN 978-0-19-954145-4 Added following a term request by Nolan Nichols: https://github.com/ISA-tools/stato/issues/12 Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran Definition changed according to discussions in https://github.com/ISA-tools/stato/issues/55 Evaluation of statistical inference on empirical resting state fMRI. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2014 Apr;61(4):1091-9. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2294013. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24658234 Orlaith Burke Philippe Rocca-Serra Statistical inference is the process of deducing properties of an underlying probability distribution by analysis of data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_inference ready for release