What Is Inferential Statistics?
Inferential statistics support us to reach
conclusions that extend beyond the immediate
data alone
For instance, we use inferential statistics to try
to infer from the sample data what the
population might be
Or, we use inferential statistics to make
judgments of the probability that an observed
difference between groups is a dependable
one or one that might have happened by
chance in the study
Thus, we use inferential statistics to make
inferences from our data to more general
conditions