Inference In Statistics

Question 1

What is descriptive statistics?

Answer 1

Describes or summarises the data

Question 2

What is inferential statistics?

Answer 2

Draws general conclusions from emperical data

Question 3

What’s a hypothesis test?

Answer 3

assessing whether any given value for g is compatible with the number we got in our sample

Question 4

What is the sampling distribution?

Answer 4

Testing the hypothesis to determine what would be expected if the hypothesis was true