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.
The mean is the most widely used measures of central tendency, because it is the measure of central tendency that is most often used in inferential statistics. However, as you will see at the end of this section, the mean does not always provide the best indication of the typical score in a distribution.