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The purpose of statistical inference is to provide information about the _____. a. population based upon information contained in the sample b. population based upon information contained in the population c. sample based upon information contained in the population d. mean of the sample based upon the mean of the population

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Using statistical concepts, it is found that the correct option is:a. population based upon information contained in the sample-------------------------------Statistical inference is the process of using data analytics to deduce properties of an underlying probability distribution.For example, if I want to know the percentage of Buffalo Bills fans that are from Canada. There is no way I can ask this question to every Bills fan(every Bills fan is the population). What I can do, for example, is go to a game and ask some of the fans there, that is, of a sample.So the correct option is:population based upon information contained in the sampleA similar problem is given at