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The topics below are usually included in the area of interpreting statistical data. A more formal name for this topic is statistical inference.
back to Statistics Statistical inference is inference about a population from a random sample drawn from it or, more generally, about a random process from its observed behavior during a finite period of time. It includes:
There are several distinct schools of thought about the justification of statistical inference. All are based on some idea of what real world phenomena can be reasonably modeled as probability. back to Statistics |
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