What is the difference between descriptive statistics and inferential statistics?

On November 26, 2011, in Basic Statistics, by

Basic Statistics

The field of descriptive statistics focuses on describing, summarizing, or explaining a set of data.
Inferential statistics goes beyond the immediate data and infers the characteristics of populations based on samples.

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