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In general in Descriptive Statistics we use tools like central tendency, dispersion, skew, kurtosis to summarize a given set of data. But inferential statistics is much boarder than it. In inferential l statistics we use tools like chi square test, ANOVA, ACOVA, Correlation, Regression, Factor Analysis etc to predict the behavior based on the sample data.

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