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Determine whether descriptive or inferential statistics were used.A study conducted by a research network found that people with fewer than 12 years of education had lower life expectancies than those with more years of education.
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Descriptive statistics is concerned with summarizing data from a sample using indexes such as the mean, mode, and median. On the other hand, inferential statistics is concerned with making predictions or generalizations about a population based on a sample. Show more…
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