Discussion Prompt 1: Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
Using your knowledge of statistics please answer the following prompts/questions.
How do researchers use descriptive and inferential statistics?
What is the function of hypotheses in research?
Describe what significance tests are designed to do.
Explain your answer and support it with appropriate references from this week’s learning materials.
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