extrapolatable
Can be extended
Extrapolatable describes data, trends, or findings that can be extended beyond their original scope to estimate or predict unknown values.
A study's results are extrapolatable if they can reasonably apply to other populations or contexts: The findings from this small trial may not be extrapolatable to the general population.
Also spelled extrapolable.
Conclusion reached through reasoning
- generalizationDeriving principles from examples
- inductionFormal admission process
- deductionConclusion from premises
- reasoningDrawing logical conclusions
projection · estimation · conclusion · correlation · analysis · assumption · hypothesis · pattern
Prediction of future conditions
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- trendDirection of change
- anticipationState of awaiting something
- prognosisPredicted disease course
modeling · trajectory · estimation · foresight · expectation · indicator · signal · precursor
Guess from limited facts
- hypothesisTestable proposed explanation
- theoreticalBased on hypothesis, untested
- assumptionUnverified belief accepted as true
- tentativeUncertain and provisional
unproven · postulate · supposition · abstract · notional · provisional · uncertain · conjectural
inference
Conclusion reached through reasoning
- generalizationDeriving principles from examples
- inductionFormal admission process
- deductionConclusion from premises
reasoning · projection · estimation · conclusion · correlation · analysis · assumption · hypothesis · pattern · trend
forecast
Prediction of future conditions
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- trendDirection of change
- anticipationState of awaiting something
prognosis · modeling · trajectory · estimation · foresight · expectation · indicator · signal · precursor · future
conjecture
Guess from limited facts
- hypothesisTestable proposed explanation
- theoreticalBased on hypothesis, untested
- assumptionUnverified belief accepted as true
tentative · unproven · postulate · supposition · abstract · notional · provisional · uncertain · conjectural · hypothetical
extrapolatableidiosyncratic
Distinctively individual in nature
particular · localized · sui generis · anomalous · unique
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