Then the user used the application's menus to choose descriptive statistics or inferential statistics.
These models can be used to draw inferences about the process or population under study-a practice called inferential statistics.
The corroboration test used here is like inferential statistics.
Simple inferential statistics are preferred (79%) instead of, for example, structural equation modeling (17%).
Hurlbert; reported 'pseudoreplication' in 48% of the studies he examined, that used inferential statistics.
See hypergeometric distribution and inferential statistics for further on the distribution of hits.
This problem would now be considered one of inferential statistics.
This generally means that descriptive statistics, unlike inferential statistics, are not developed on the basis of probability theory.
Even when a data analysis draws its main conclusions using inferential statistics, descriptive statistics are generally also presented.
In that way, effect sizes complement inferential statistics such as p-values.