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In each of these statements, we want to know if descriptive or inferential statistics have been used.
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So what's the difference? descriptive is, as the name suggests, just describing.
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So you are just stating a statistic.
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Some point of information about your sample.
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Inferential requires reasoning.
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You have to go above descriptive.
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You have to state something new.
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You have to find a link or a reason.
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Or you could make a prediction.
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These make it an inference rather than just describing.
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Now let's apply that to our question.
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So we'll start with part a.
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In the year 2030, 148 million americans will be enrolled in h &hmo.
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So that's inferential of an i...