The two main branches of statistics are descriptive statistics and inferential statistics.

Both of these are

employed in scientific analysis of data and both are equally important for the student of statistics.

Parameters are numbers that summarize data for an entire population. Statistics are numbers that
summarize data from a sample, i.e. some subset of the entire population. ... For each study, identify
both the parameter and the statistic in the study.

Population is the number of people or animals in a particular place. An example of population is over

eight million people living in New York City. A group of individuals of the same species occupying a
particular geographic area.

The main difference between a population and sample has to do with how observations are assigned to
the data set. A population includes all of the elements from a set of data. A sample consists one or more
observations drawn from the population.

Statistics the practice or science of collecting and analyzing numerical data in large quantities, especially
for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole from those in a representative sample.

Level of measurement or scale of measure is a classification that describes the nature of

information within the values assigned to variables. Psychologist Stanley Smith Stevens
developed the best-known classification with four levels, or scales, of measurement: nominal,
ordinal, interval, and ratio.