A researcher studying attitudes of parents of preschool children interviews the random sample of 50 mothers, each and every having one preschool child. He asks each mother, "How many times did you compliment your child yesterday?" He records the answer as C.
A) Is C = 4 an example of the data value, a statistic, a parameter, a variable, or a sample?
B) Give an example of a question that can be answered using tools of descriptive statistics.
C) Give an example of a question that can be answered using the tools of inferential statistics.