Statistical Methods That Allow Experimenters to Make Generalizations from Samples

question 109

Multiple Choice

Statistical methods that allow experimenters to make generalizations from samples to larger populations are called ____.

• A)descriptive statistics
• B)probability distributions
• C)representative samples
• D)inferential statistics

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Definitions:

Independent Sample Variances

Variability measures of two or more independent samples, analyzed to understand difference across populations.

F Distribution

A probability distribution that arises in the analysis of variance tests, used to calculate and interpret the ratio of variances to determine statistical significance.

Null Hypothesis

A statement used in statistics that proposes there is no significant difference or effect and that any observed differences are due to chance.

Population Variance

Population Variance is a measure of the dispersion of all the values in a population from the mean, highlighting how spread out the population data points are.