Our reading in Lane (2016), Chapter 1, compares and contrasts some aspects of both descriptive and inferential statistics. Our DeVore (2012) text also highlights these issues in the first chapter. Consider the different impacts that these two aspects of statistics will have on your role as an engineer.

Discuss how these two branches of statistics will provide different capabilities and impacts in your engineering discipline. Provide an example of an area where you might use descriptive statistics to better understand a variable, as well as an example of an area where inferential statistics might be needed to draw some conclusion from a set of variables data that you have. Do you see both descriptive and inferential statistics being necessary for your future success as an engineer? Explain your reasons for that opinion.

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