Descriptive vs inferential statistics ppt

Descriptive statistics is about describing your sample: 60% of people surveyed love chocolate.
Inferential statistics is about projecting it onto an appropriate population: It can be expected with 95% probability that 60%+/-3.2% of high school students love chocolate.

Feb 23, 2021Descriptive and Inferential Statistics - Download as a PDF or view online for free.

Feb 23, 2021The two major areas of statistics are: descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. In this presentation, the difference between the two

Why do we use inferential statistics?

It is not an estimate of a population value

You don’t test hypotheses in descriptive studies

Inferential studies will generalize the results beyond the group and draw inferences about a larger population

All scientific studies use inferential statistics because they don’t want to know whether an effect exists just in a small group of subjects

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