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    Inferential statistics allow scientists to make generalizations about a larger population based on a sample from that population. Scientists use techniques like regression analysis and ANOVA to examine relationships between variables in a sample and then infer how those variables relate in the wider population. There are two major types of inferential statistics: confidence intervals, which provide a range of values for an unknown population parameter based on a sample, and tests of significance, where scientists make claims about a population by analyzing a sample with some degree of uncertainty. Common significance tests include the chi-square test and t-test.

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    Inferential statistics allow scientists to make generalizations about a larger population based on a sample from that population. Scientists use techniques like regression analysis and ANOVA to examine relationships between variables in a sample and then infer how those variables relate in the wider population. There are two major types of inferential statistics: confidence intervals, which provide a range of values for an unknown population parameter based on a sample, and tests of significance, where scientists make claims about a population by analyzing a sample with some degree of uncertainty. Common significance tests include the chi-square test and t-test.

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    Inferential statistics allow scientists to make generalizations about a larger population based on a sample from that population. Scientists use techniques like regression analysis and ANOVA to examine relationships between variables in a sample and then infer how those variables relate in the wider population. There are two major types of inferential statistics: confidence intervals, which provide a range of values for an unknown population parameter based on a sample, and tests of significance, where scientists make claims about a population by analyzing a sample with some degree of uncertainty. Common significance tests include the chi-square test and t-test.

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    Inferential Statistics

    Inferential statistics are produced through complex mathematical


    calculations that allow scientists to infer trends about a larger
    population based on a study of a sample taken from it. Scientists
    use inferential statistics to examine the relationships between
    variables within a sample and then make generalizations or
    predictions about how those variables will relate to a larger
    population.

    It is usually impossible to examine each member of the population


    individually. So scientists choose a representative subset of the
    population, called a statistical sample, and from this analysis, they
    are able to say something about the population from which the
    sample came. There are two major divisions of inferential
    statistics:

     A confidence interval gives a range of values for an unknown


    parameter of the population by measuring a statistical
    sample. This is expressed in terms of an interval and the
    degree of confidence that the parameter is within the
    interval.
     Tests of significance or hypothesis testing where scientists
    make a claim about the population by analyzing a statistical
    sample. By design, there is some uncertainty in this process.
    This can be expressed in terms of a level of significance.

    Techniques that social scientists use to examine the relationships


    between variables, and thereby to create inferential statistics,
    include linear regression analyses, logistic regression
    analyses, ANOVA, correlation analyses, structural equation
    modeling, and survival analysis. When conducting research using
    inferential statistics, scientists conduct a test of significance to
    determine whether they can generalize their results to a larger
    population. Common tests of significance include the chi-
    square and t-test. These tell scientists the probability that the
    results of their analysis of the sample are representative of the
    population as a whole.

    Descriptive vs. Inferential Statistics

    Although descriptive statistics is helpful in learning things such as


    the spread and center of the data, nothing in descriptive statistics
    can be used to make any generalizations. In descriptive statistics,
    measurements such as the mean and standard deviation are
    stated as exact numbers.

    Even though inferential statistics uses some similar calculations


    — such as the mean and standard deviation — the focus is
    different for inferential statistics. Inferential statistics start with a
    sample and then generalizes to a population. This information
    about a population is not stated as a number. Instead, scientists
    express these parameters as a range of potential numbers, along
    with a degree of confidence.

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