HW 1
Instructions:
For all questions (i.e., those requiring so), write at least three complete sentences in your answer (can also write more).
- How are descriptive and inferential statistics related to each other? What do inferential statistics involve that descriptive statistics do not?
- How does a sample relate to a population?
- Under what conditions would you use the median rather than the mean as a measure of central tendency? Why? Provide an example of two situations where the median might be more useful than the mean.