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What are inferential statistics and how are they used?

April 2, 2022 statstips Comments 13 comments

Inferential statistics allow us to make decisions about a large group (usually referred to as a population) based upon observations made within a small group selected from that population (usually referred to as a sample. This ability to infer something about a population based upon a sample allows a deeper understanding of data beyond what descriptive statistics alone can offer. Sometimes knowing the mean of a group of scores is enough information. Still, inferential statistics allows us to compare the…

What are descriptive statistics and how are they used?

March 27, 2022 statstips Comments 25 comments

Descriptive statistics are used to organize, summarize and describe the attributes of a set of data. A set of data, especially numeric data, are often referred to as a distribution. A category of descriptive statistics is those measures that describe a distribution using one measure and can be thought of as describing “middle’ or typical score within a distribution. These measures of central tendency, such as the mean, median, and mode, are typically used as the best summary of a…

Why Study Statistics?

March 21, 2022 statstips Comments 26 comments

Why study statistics, and how can I use it in my career or everyday life? We are surrounded by data and inundated with it every waking hour, and while we are asleep, mountains of data accumulate, ready to grab our attention. What do governments, industries of all kinds, schools and universities, and even sports teams have in common? They collect and utilize massive amounts of data. How do these groups make sense of all this information and find patterns and…

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