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What is inferential statistics?

What is inferential statistics? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (statistics) A branch of statistics studying statistical inference—drawing conclusions about a population from a random sample drawn from it, or, more generally, about a random process from its observed behavior during a finite period of time.
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This more subtle observation cannot be appreciated without a minimal knowledge of introductory inferential statistics and the ability to do long division.
This way of generalizing results from a sample to the entire population is called inferential statistics.
When inferential statistics are presented, then the study is either correlational or causal.
The rules of sampling for inferential statistics need to be considered before conclusions are drawn from Web-generated data.
A quantitative approach is used when descriptive or inferential statistics are required.
Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to compare scores between the groups.

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