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HLTH 490 Test 2 Topic 43
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Health Care
Undergraduate 3
03/09/2009
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Term
descriptive statistics
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summarize data so they can be easily comprehended
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inferential statistics
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help draw inferences about the effects of sampling errors on the results that are described with descriptive statistics; help make generalizations about the characteristics of populations
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Is the margin of error a descriptive or inferential statistic?
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inferential
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significant tests
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help researchers decide whether the differences in descriptive statistics they identify are reliable
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samples yield --
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statistics
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populations yield --
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parameters
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