In HIM practice, descriptive statistics are most often used in a HIM department. Terms such as mortality and morbidity are examples of descriptive statistics. Healthcare researchers, in contrast, are interested in understanding the characteristics of and reaching conclusions about a population from a sample, which is called inferential statistics. What is the difference between descriptive statistics and inferential statistics and provide example of when inferential statistics would benefit HIM practitioners.

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