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The topics below are usually included in the area of interpreting statistical data. A more formal name for this topic is statistical inference.
back to Statistics Statistical inference is a collection of procedures designed to allow us to make reliable conclusions from data collected from statistical samples to real or hypothetical statistical populations. It is the formal name of what we call interpreting statistical data. The most common forms of statistical inference are:
There are several distinct schools of thought about the justification of statistical inference. All are based on some idea of what real world phenomena can be reasonably modeled as probability. back to Statistics
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