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Inference means taking information and making an assumption or guess about it. An inferential question is one that can't be answered by the information within the question itself, but that you must make an educated guess.
An example would be a question where you read about a train ride and the passage includes a description of tall buildings outside the windows. An inferential question would be "Was the train traveling through the country or a city?"
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What are some example of inferential questions?
what is the time? what is the time?
What is a example of inferential?
An example of inferential statistics is using a sample of data to draw conclusions or make predictions about a population. For instance, you could survey a random sample of 500 people in a city to infer the average salary of all residents in that city.
Is a t-test a descriptive statistic?
A t-test is a inferential statistic. Other inferential statistics are confidence interval, margin of error, and ANOVA. An inferential statistic infers something about a population. A descriptive statistic describes a population. Descriptive statistics include percentages, means, variance, and regression.
What are the statistical methods called that use sample data to answer general questions about a population?
Inferential statistics. This branch of statistics involves making inferences or predictions about a population based on data collected from a sample taken from that population.
What is inferential data?
There is no inferential data. There is inferential statistics which from samples, you infer or draw a conclusion about the population. Hypothesis testing is an example of inferential statistics.
What is ANOVA related to statistics?
ANOVA is an inferential statistic used to test if 3 or more population means are equal or to test the affects of interactions.
What is needed before a patient can be properly diagnosed?
After the examination of the symptoms and identify the nature disease such as blood test, imaging test, biopsies...
Select a journal article that involves a statistical study, and write a paper answering the following questions.(a) Is the study descriptive or inferential Explain your answer. (5 marks?
Select a journal article that involves a statistical study, and write a paper answering the following questions.(a) Is the study descriptive or inferential? Explain your answer. (5 marks
What to do to ensure test validity?
To ensure validity of test, one should prepare a table of specification to describe the topics to be covered in a test and the number of items or points which will be associated with each topic and to identify the achievement domains being measured and to ensure that a fair and representative sample of questions appear on the test.
Why are measures of variability essential to inferential statistics?
Why are measures of variability essential to inferential statistics?
Identify at least five different chemicals that are in tobacco products smoke or smokeless and describe there health effects?
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What is inferential statisics?
inferential statistics allows us to gain info about a population based on a sample
