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What is the difference between descriptive statistics and inferential statistics?

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Nov 262011
 
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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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