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Descriptive Statistics Inferential Statistics. These observations had been described by the descriptive statistics. Descriptive statistics describe a group of interest. Learn more about these two types of statistics. You can accurately produce numbers for the population without worrying about being off or making any errors but you cant make any conclusions that go beyond the population that you have.
Starting from the sample inferential statistics can now be used to make a statement about the population. That focuses on drawing conclusions about the population on the basis of sample analysis and observation. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics are two broad categories in the field of statistics. Descriptive statistics describe a group of interest. Generalizing from our data to another set of cases is the business of inferential statistics which youll be studying in another section. According to Houser 2009 descriptive statistics are the statistical steps that are followed to describe the totality of study.
Inferential Statistics is a type of statistics.
In brief Descriptive statistics analyze the big data with the help of charts and tables. Descriptive statistics provides tools to describe a sample. Descriptive and inferential statistics are two broad categories in the field of statistics. Statistics for Data Science Descriptive Statistics B. Descriptive statistics describe a group of interest. Mean median mode variance and standard deviation.