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.
Definition of infer for English Language Learners. : 1  to form (an opinion) from evidence : to reach (a conclusion) based on known facts. : 2  to hint or suggest (something)