Oct 5, 2013 · My understanding was that descriptive statistics quantitatively described features of a data sample, while inferential statistics made inferences about the populations from which …

My original thought was that parametric vs non-parametric statistics falls in a subcategory of inferential statistics, and that inferential statistics makes use of descriptive statistics. but some …

Inferential Statistics is "given some data, find the probability model that generates the data", so it is a specific-to-general logic process, and therefore it is induction. Descriptive Statistics is …

Dec 13, 2015 · Why would one perform normality test on sample for descriptive results, most of the hypothesis test talks about population being normal which means inferential methods …

Mar 17, 2024 · Is this a case where descriptive statistic (direcly compare the two means) is enough, without need for inference (say, a t-test)? I tend to discard simple descriptive statistic …

May 6, 2015 · 9 Descriptive statistics do not have p-values. Hypothesis tests, which can test whether or not a descriptive statistic equals a specific value, can have p-values. Whoever …

Jun 9, 2020 · 4 Descriptive statistics definition is pretty clear to say that it summarizes data using statistical methods like mean, mode, median, and spread. However, I came across the term …

Can someone please explain to me which statistics forecasting and predictions are part of? Inferential or Descriptive? I am working on an homework. I was unable to come across the …

Jun 6, 2018 · My guess is that the answer lies with inferential vs descriptive statistics, of which the barplot with errorbars, and the boxplot, are respective exponents of; but would appreciate an …

Mar 17, 2018 · Both descriptive statistics and test statistics are functions of the data, or in other words, numerical summaries calculated from the data. So the difference is only in your …