The Process of Making Conjecture About the Value of a Population

question 26

Multiple Choice

The process of making conjecture about the value of a population parameter, collecting sample data that can be used to assess this conjecture, measuring the strength of the evidence against the conjecture that is provided by the sample, and using these results to draw a conclusion about the conjecture is better known as:

• A) postulation.
• B) hypothesis testing.
• C) statistical inference.
• D) empirical research.

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Definitions:

Forms

In philosophy, especially in Platonic thought, the ideal or perfect essence of something, which exists beyond the physical representation.

Contradictory

Qualities, statements, or propositions that are in direct opposition to each other, such that if one is true, the other must be false.

Proposition

A statement or assertion that expresses a judgment or opinion, which can be analyzed as true or false.

Subalternate

In logic, a term referring to the relationship between a universal statement and its corresponding particular statement.