Interpreting Inferential and Descriptive Statistics

Descriptive statistics are useful for describing characteristics. Typically, both qualitative and quantitative use descriptive statistics to tell about the sample characteristics. Qualitative research does not use statistics to describe the findings that is one of the major differences between qualitative and quantitative.

Quantitative researchers use descriptive statistics to not only report about the sample characteristics but sometimes use them to report their findings. This is done in lower-level designs only. More often inferential statistics are used. What is meant by inferential statistics? Why are these used? What role does the p value play? What does significance mean?

Inferential statistics do allow for generalizability and predictions. What types of inferential statistics did you see in the studies that you have read thus far? What was the level of data associated with these studies?

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Houser, J. (2018). Nursing research: Reading, using, and creating evidence (4th ed.). Jones & Bartlet