Overall, professor salaries barely budged during past year, the Chronicle says, noting that on average, salaries for full-time faculty rose 1.8% in the 2011-12 school year, while inflation was 3%. Tuition, meanwhile, has increased dramatically.
Inferential Statistics. Inferential statistics is concerned with making predictions or inferences about a population from observations and analyses of a sample. That is, we can take the results of an analysis using a sample and can generalize it to the larger population that the sample represents.
As the field of statistics, the â theoretical science or formal study of the inferential process, especially the planning and analysis of experiments, surveys, and observational studies.â (Piantadosi 2005). has developed in the twentieth century, clinical research has utilized statistical methods provide formal accounting for sources of variability ...