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... > social science subjects > education > educational systems > curriculum > curriculum studies > inquiry and research > quantitative research > quantitative data analysis > inferential statistics
... > social science subjects > social research > research methods and evaluation > quantitative research > quantitative data analysis > inferential statistics
... > social science subjects > psychology > applied psychology > industrial and organizational psychology > foundations: measurement theory and statistics > inferential statistics

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inferential statistics  

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  • Inferential statistics allow researchers to make generalizations about how well results from samples match those for populations. Because samples are parts of populations, samples do not include all of the population information. [Source: Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics; Inferential Statistics]

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