Are inferential statistics different from descriptive statistics?

Answer 1

Yes. Descriptive statistics are methods of organizing, summarizing, and presenting data in an informative way. Inferential Statistics

(also called statistical inference) the methods used to estimate a property of a population on the basis of a sample.

Answer 2

5. Which one of the following is true about statistics?

A) Inferential statistics deals with collecting, summarizing, and simplifying data about given population

B) Descriptive statistics is also known as inductive statistics

C) Descriptive statistics goes beyond describing a given problem situation by means of collecting, summarizing and meaningfully presenting the related data

D) Descriptive statistics is one which describes the population. On the other hand, inferential statistics issued to make the generalization about the population based on the samples.