Inference In Statistics Flashcards
1
Q
What is descriptive statistics?
A
Describes or summarises the data
2
Q
What is inferential statistics?
A
Draws general conclusions from emperical data
3
Q
What’s a hypothesis test?
A
assessing whether any given value for g is compatible with the number we got in our sample
4
Q
What is the sampling distribution?
A
Testing the hypothesis to determine what would be expected if the hypothesis was true
