Statistical Inference

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 mathematics dealing with the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data?

• Algebra

• Geometry

• Probability

• Statistics

The most commonly occurring number

• Mean

• Range

• Mode

• Standard Deviation

The middle number, once data is made ordinal

• Mean

• Mode

• Median

• Range

_____________________ statistics consists of generalizing from samples to populations, performing estimations and hypothesis tests, determining relationships among variables, and making predictions.

• mathematical

• descriptive

• inferential

• population

Techniques used to make conclusions about a large group based on an observation of a small part of the group.

• Statistics

• Descriptive Statistics

• Inferential Methods

• Population parameter

These are the two types of statistics:

• Discrete and Continuous

• Population and Sample

• Descriptive and Inferential

• Mean and Standard deviation

___________ ___________ is the branch of statistics that involves using a sample to draw conclusion about a population.

It is a statistical procedure that is used to draw inferences or information about the properties or characteristics by a large group of people, places or things on the basis of the information obtained from a small portion of a large group.

It is concerned with making decisions about a large body of data in the population of interest by using a smaller portion or sample of that population.

Which phrase is used generically in place of measures of central tendency and dispersion for inferential statistics?

• Measures of central tendency

• Descriptive statistics

• Summary statistics

• Measures of dispersion