Question

You are researching the average score on Quiz One in your statistics class. You ask " Are the average scores of the students in this class similar to what you would expect to see in a normal statistics class at a community college?" This is an example of:

Collective statistics

Descriptive statistics

Null statistics

Inferential statistics

Answer 1

Answer

There is nothing like collective statistics or null statistics. So, option A and C are incorrect.

We know that descriptive statistics gives us information about the sample. For example, descriptive statistics is mean, median, mode, standard deviation and variance, etc. for the sample.

We know that the inferential statistics is defined as making conclusion or drawing an idea about the population data using the sample data and findings.

In this case, average score of a class is compared to the normal statistics class at a community college, i.e. sample data is used to make conclusion about the population.

So, it is an inferential statistics

Option D is correct answer