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Identify and describe the basic components of descriptive and experimental research used in psychology

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Inferential and descriptive statistics, randomized studies

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Inferential and descriptive statistics are essential to enumerate and tabulate the gathered data to be able to use it as evidence for the resulting discussion and conclusions drawn on the basis of the data. Experimental methods are of choice for most psychology professors and research ...

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