A news reporter surveyed 20 New Orleans residents and asked

A news reporter surveyed 20 New Orleans residents and asked if they planned to evacuate due to impending hurricane. She randomly selected 20 people out of the phone book. What part of the field of statistics is this?

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A news reporter surveyed 20 New Orleans residents and asked if they planned to evacuate due to impending hurricane. She randomly selected 20 people out of the phone book. What part of the field of statistics is this?

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\"The design of a study defines the study type (descriptive, correlational, semi-experimental, experimental, review, meta-analytic) and sub-type (e.g., descriptive-longitudinal case study), research question, hypotheses, independent and dependent variables, experimental design, and, if applicable, data collection methods and a statistical analysis plan. Research design is the framework that has been created to seek answers to research questions.

Descriptive Statistics: A statistical technique that produces a number or figure that summarizes or describes a set of data. The basic idea is that a descriptive statistic summarizes a set of data with one number or graph.

Inferential Statistics: A method that takes chance factors into account when samples are used to reach conclusions (or make inferences about) populations\"