Statistical Inference Uses Data from a Sample Population

question 44

Multiple Choice

Statistical inference uses data from a sample population:

• A)To describe the sample population.
• B)To describe the sample and the population.
• C)To examine the way in which a frequency is distributed.
• D)To draw conclusions (or inferences) about the population from which the sample was drawn.

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Definitions:

A Priori Truths

A Priori Truths are knowledge or propositions that are known independently of experience, based on reason alone.

Empirical Statements

Assertions about the world that are verifiable through observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.

Contingent

Not necessary; could have been otherwise. What we believe (or a state of affairs) is contingent if we can imagine its being other than it is.

Royal Road

Historically, a phrase suggesting a direct and effortless path to a solution or goal; originates from the ancient Persian network of roads facilitating rapid communication.