Overall, professor salaries barely budged during past year, the Chronicle says, noting that on average, salaries for full-time faculty rose 1.8% in the 2011-12 school year, while inflation was 3%. Tuition, meanwhile, has increased dramatically.
Inferential Statistics. Inferential statistics is concerned with making predictions or inferences about a population from observations and analyses of a sample. That is, we can take the results of an analysis using a sample and can generalize it to the larger population that the sample represents.
Descriptive statistics describe the characteristics of your numerical dataset, while inferential statistics are used to make inferences from subsets of data so you can better understand the larger datasets from which the subset is taken.