Inferential statistics

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Inferential statistics or statistical induction comprises the use of statistics to make inferences concerning some unknown aspect (usually a parameter) of a population. It is distinguished from descriptive statistics.

Two schools of inferential statistics are frequency probability, and Bayesian inference.