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An Empirical Researcher Wants to Identify the Effect of HMO

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An empirical researcher wants to identify the effect of HMO membership on health care costs and does so by comparing costs with membership across the states.This approach is best characterized as:


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Inferential Statistics

The branch of statistics that allows one to make predictions or inferences about a population based on a sample of data from that population.

Descriptive Statistics

Statistical techniques used to describe and summarize the basic features of data, offering simple summaries about the sample and the measures.

Statistical Hypotheses

Formal statements made about the expected relationship between variables within the context of statistical analysis.

Frequency Distributions

A summary table or graph that shows how frequently different values occur in a dataset, often organized in ascending order.

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