5. statistical methods that used sample data to answers general questions about a population are called a) inferential statistics b) statistics e) descriptive statistics c) parameters 6. a characteristic, usually a numerical value, that describes an entire population of scores is a a) Parameter b) statistic c) variable d) 8. Although samples are usually representative of populations from which they were selected, you should not expect a sample statistic to be exactly equal to the corresponding population parameter. The natural differences that exist between statistics and their parameters is known as a) sampling error b) inferencial error c) parameter error d) variable error 9) Determining a persons occupation would involve measurement on the scale of measurement. a) nominal b) ordinal c) interval d) ratio