Descriptive, Inferential, Quantitative, Qualitative

branch of stats that organizes, summarizes and displays data

• descriptive

• inferential

branch of stats that draws conclusions

• descriptive

• inferential

data that is numerical

• qualitative

• quantitative

data that is attributes, labels or non numerical

• qualitative

• quanitative

Statistics which is concerned with a higher order of critical thinking and judgment.

• Descriptive

• Inferential

• Parametric

• Non Parametric

Inferential vs descriptive statistics:

Draws educated conclusions about a population that is likely too large to sample completely

• Descriptive

• Inferential

A study of 1,000 randomly selected individuals found that 70% of them prefer using smartphones over traditional cell phones.

• Descriptive

• Inferential

By 2040 at least 3.5 billion people will run short of water (World Future Society).

• Inferential

• Descriptive

What is the branch of statistics that involves drawing conclusions about a population based on information contained in a sample taken from that population?

• descriptive statistics

• inferential statistics

• sports statistics

• health statistics

What is the branch of statistics that involves organizing, displaying and describing data?

• descriptive statistics

• inferential statistics

• sports statistics

• health statistics