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KimWrice

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What are inferential statistics and how do they differ from descriptive statistics?
 
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Question 2

What is one of the criteria that an IRB uses to review research?
 
  a. minimal risk to nonhuman subjects
 b. minimal risk to human participants
 c. guaranteed discrimination in the selection process
  d. guaranteed access to participant names and data


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Reply #1 on: Jun 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Inferential statistics are procedures for drawing conclusions about a population based on data collected from a sample, whereas descriptive statistics simply allow us to describe a data set.

Answer to Question 2

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