Inferential statistics are procedures used to ______.
A. describe a set of scores or observations in terms of summary statistics
B. organize a set of scores or observations in a table, graph, or figure
C. make sense of a set of scores or observations by counting how often scores occur in each category
D. make decisions about characteristics in a population based on data measured in a sample
Ans: D
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