inferential statistics

British

noun

(functioning as singular) another name for statistical inference

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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.

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This caution is here because in the next chapter we will see that the normal distribution describes something very different from raw data and forms the foundation of inferential statistics.

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We are interested in both the sample statistic and the population parameter in 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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