Question

Indicate which of the following situations inferential statistics: a. An annual stockholders' report details the assets of the corporation. b. A history instructor tells his class the number of students who received an A on a recent exam. c. The mean of a sample set of scores is calculated to characterize the sample. d. The sample data from a poll are used to estimate the opinion of the population. e. A correlational study is conducted on a sample to determine whether educational level and income in the population are related. f. A newspaper article reports the average salaries of federal employees from data collected on all federal employees.

Answer 1

Answer:

The situations c, d and e are Inferential statistics.

Step-by-step explanation:

Inferential statistics is used to determine reasons for a situation or phenomenon. It helps to draw conclusions grounded on extrapolations, and is hence fundamentally dissimilar from descriptive statistics that only summarizes the data that has truly been measured.

Descriptive statistics are short-term descriptive coefficients that condenses a given data set, which can be a demonstration of the whole or a sample of a whole population.

All descriptive statistics are either central tendency measure or variability measure. Measures of central tendency define the epicenter position of a distribution for a data set.  

From the provided situations the Inferential statistics are:

c. The mean of a sample set of scores is calculated to characterize the sample.

d. The sample data from a poll are used to estimate the opinion of the population.

e. A correlational study is conducted on a sample to determine whether educational level and income in the population are related.

Thus, the situations c, d and e are Inferential statistics.