Determine if the following statement is descriptive in nature or is inferential? "Of all the visits to spas in 2003, 23% were visits by men."
Descriptive Statistics: It shows a numerical description of data and summary statistics of data under study. Example: Population mean, population variance, sample mean etc are part of descriptive summary of data.
Inferential Statistic: In this branch, the descriptive statistics measures are used to make inference about population from which sample is taken. The first step is to decide the research question. Then you need to decide the variables to collect the data.
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Here 23% shows the proprotion of visits by men in all visits so it is descriptive statistics.
Hence, it is descriptive in nature.
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