Introduction to Inferential Statistics
Abstract
This chapter presents an introduction to inferential statistics. It discusses such topics as sampling theory; estimation, which includes point estimates and interval estimates; hypothesis testing; and linear regression analysis.
Keywords
Sample mean
sample variance
point estimate
interval estimate
confidence interval
confidence limits
level of significance
null hypothesis
alternate hypothesis
9.1 Introduction
As discussed in Chapter 8, a population is the set of all individuals, items, or data of interest. A characteristic (usually numeric) that describes a population is referred to as a population parameter. As also discussed in Chapter 8, we usually do not have access to the whole ...
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