One of the main ways to organize the study of statistics is to divide it in two branches.These two branches are _______ statistics and _______ statistics.
A)positive; normative
B)descriptive; normative
C)positive; inferential
D)descriptive; inferential
E)positive, macro

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The two main branches of statistics are descriptive statistics, which summarizes and describes the features of a data set, and inferential statistics, which makes predictions or inferences about a population based on a sample of data.

One of the Main Ways to Organize the Study of Statistics