expectation vs inference

expectation

noun
  • That which is expected or looked for. 

  • The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen. 

  • The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. 

  • The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment. 

  • The arithmetic mean. 

  • The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. 

  • The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything good to come, especially of property or rank. 

inference

noun
  • That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction. 

  • The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction. 

How often have the words expectation and inference occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )