11 Inferential Statistics

We talk about the importance of inferential statistics in Data Science. Inferential statistics are a set of techniques used to make generalizations about a population from a sample. One of the tools used in inferential statistics is hypothesis testing. In this episode we provide a couple of examples on when and why to use 1-sample t-tests and 2-sample t-tests. We also argue that the mean or average of a sample means nothing if we do not also consider the variation of the data.

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