The branch of statistics that involves using a sample to draw conclusions about a population is called ________ statistics.
- descriptive
- inferential
- numerical
- qualitative
Inferential statistics is the branch of statistics that involves using a sample to draw conclusions about a population. It takes data from a sample and makes inferences about the larger population from which the sample was drawn. For example, inferential statistics might use data from a sample of women to infer something about the mean weight of all women.
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