Stapor, K. (2020) Descriptive and Inferential Statistics. In Intelligent Systems Reference Library, Springer, 63-131.

Select the type of statistical analysis you want to perform (e.g., Descriptive Statistics, Regression). Input the range of your data and configure the settings as needed.

Learn key differences between descriptive and inferential statistics in SPSS and how each type contributes to data analysis.

In statistics, a population is the group on which information is being gathered and analyzed. A sample is a representative selection of the population.

This is the main difference between inferential statistics and descriptive statistics. Inferential statistics uses complicated calculations to make predictions while descriptive statistics doesn’t.

Thus, no matter what inferential statistic we use, the question is always something like: “This difference we found in our sample, what is the probability we found a difference that large, just ...

Thus, no matter what inferential statistic we use, the question is always something like: “This difference we found in our sample, what is the probability we found a difference that large, just ...

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