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Comparison of exploratory (hypothesis generating) and confirmatory (hypothesis testing) preclinical studies. Descriptive statistics describes data and provides descriptions of the population, using numerical calculations, graphs, and tables. In contrast, inferential statistics predicts and infers about a population using a sample of data from the population, therefore one can take data from samples and make generalisation about a population
