As one of its major contributions, statistics uses data from a sample to make estimates and test hypotheses about the characteristics of a population through a process referred to as
A) hypothesis of the sample
B) descriptive statistics
C) influencing the sample information
D) statistical inference

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Statistical inference is the process of using data from a sample to make inferences or draw conclusions about a broader population. This involves making estimates and hypothesis testing that help researchers generalize findings from a sample to the population at large. Descriptive statistics, on the other hand, simply summarize and describe features of the data in the sample, while influencing the sample information is not a recognized term in statistics. Hypothesis of the sample is also not recognized in statistical inference.

As One of Its Major Contributions, Statistics Uses Data from a Sample