Descriptive and Inferential Statistics

Questions

Question 1 out of 3.
Two basic divisions of statistics are

• inferential and descriptive.
• population and sample.
• sampling and scaling.
• mean and median.

Question 2 out of 3.
Check all that apply. Descriptive statistics

• allow random assignment to experimental conditions.
• use data from a sample to answer questions about a population.
• summarize and describe data.
• allow you to generalize beyond the data at hand.

Question 3 out of 3.
Which of the following are descriptive statistics?

• The mean age of people in Detroit.
• The number of people who watched the superbowl in the year 2002.
• A prediction of next month's unemployment rate.
• The median price of new homes sold in Miami.
• The height of the tallest woman in the world.