Please Help!! Will Medal!!

A scientist measures the heights of 25 oak trees. When he finds the mean of these data, which phase of inferential statistics will it represent?

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Please Help!! Will Medal!!

A scientist measures the heights of 25 oak trees. When he finds the mean of these data, which phase of inferential statistics will it represent?

tkhunny · Answer

Average height of an oak tree?

anonymous · Answer

A.	Probability-based inference
 		B.	Data analysis
 		C.	Data gathering
 		D.	Data organization

tkhunny · Answer

No probability has been calculated.  Scratch A
There is only one source of data and only one thing to do.  Scratch D.
When he measured the trees, what was he doing?  That's the gathering.

Now to the question: When he calculates the mean, what is he doing?  Looks like analysis to me.

anonymous · Answer

Thank you kindly!(:

anonymous · Answer

B. data analysis.  collecting the average hieght of the trees  is the data and it is an analysis because you aree "over viewing" an analysis of the trees.