inferential statistics
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Without the Central Limit Theorem it would be impossible to proceed to inferential statistics from simple probability theory.
From Textbooks ● Nov. 29, 2017
One is not doing inferential statistics by throwing a mountain of data into a computer and asking the machine for a theory.
From Textbooks ● Nov. 29, 2017
As we will see this powerful theorem will determine just what we can, and cannot say, in inferential statistics.
From Textbooks ● Nov. 29, 2017
This part of statistics is called inferential statistics.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 19, 2013
The theoretically more interesting field of inferential statistics uses probability theory to make predictions, to estimate important characteristics of a population, and to test the validity of hypotheses.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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