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swarrna rathna

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Oct 15, 2020, 10:28:01 AM10/15/20

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The correct difference between inferential and descriptive statistics.

Sejal Jadhav

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Oct 15, 2020, 10:35:41 AM10/15/20

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For descriptive stats the question would always describe the data rather than making any kind of conclusions , also most of the time it will have summary of data regarding the 'population' rather than the 'sample' of the population .

For inferential stats it will tell us the conclusions based on the "sample" of the data.

goduma...@gmail.com

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Oct 15, 2020, 10:39:29 AM10/15/20

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If we are drawing any conclusions or making predictions from sample to represent population then they come under Inferential Statistics.

Descriptive is just describing or summary of the data you have like mean ,median ,mode etc.

Nikita Kumari

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Oct 15, 2020, 9:56:44 PM10/15/20

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Hello,

You can refer to FAQ of Wk 1 for explanation.

Thank you

Nikita

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