Question

A cancer research group was interested in determining the percentage of women 40 years or older that have regularly scheduled mammograms. To accomplish this, they surveyed 500 women in this age group and, based on 155 women that responded affirmatively, estimated the percentage of all women in this age group that have regularly scheduled mammograms. This process is an example of:

nonparametric statistics
nominal data
descriptive statistics
inferential statistics
census

Answer 1

Inferential statistics

Explanation:

Inferential statistics is a research plan through which a researcher can make predictions or inferences from that data. With inferential statistics, one can take the sample from the population and generalized it

There are two areas of inferential statistics:

• Estimating parameters: It means that you can take the data from the population and generalize it on the population.

• Hypothesis testing: This is the area where you can answer the research question.