What is the difference between descriptive and inferential statistical analysis?

 What is the difference between descriptive and inferential statistical analysis?

Descriptive statistics provide a summary of either one variable alone or more, but describe the study data alone. Inferential statistics allow the researcher to determine how representative the sample values are of the population and potentially to draw conclusions about the larger population based on data collected from a smaller sample.

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