A researcher wants to know the average variation in the altimeters of small, privately owned airplanes.The task of determining this is expensive and time consuming, if even possible, given the large number of such airplanes.The researcher decides to use government records to randomly locate the owners of ten such planes and then get permission to test the altimeters in those planes.When the researcher is done, he will use the data gathered from the group of ten to reach conclusions about all small, privately owned airplanes.This process can best be described as _______.
A)data statistics
B)research statistics
C)descriptive statistics
D)inferential statistics
E)nonparametric statistics

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The process described is inferential statistics, where a sample (in this case, ten airplanes) is used to make inferences or draw conclusions about the larger population (all small, privately owned airplanes).

A Researcher Wants to Know the Average Variation in the Altimeters