RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS

INTRODUCTION OF STATISTICS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A prediction has been made that the chance that a person will be robbed in a certain city is 15%.
A
Inferential
B
Descriptive
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Tools of Inferential Statistics Hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, regression analysis, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and chi-square tests are examples of inferential statistics tools.

Detailed explanation-2: -But what’s the difference between them? In a nutshell, descriptive statistics focus on describing the visible characteristics of a dataset (a population or sample). Meanwhile, inferential statistics focus on making predictions or generalizations about a larger dataset, based on a sample of those data.

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