A survey administered to a random sample drawn from a local community finds that a person's political party affiliation is related to whether or not they favor an increase in local sales tax (the headline of a newspaper story based on this poll reads: "Republicans support proposed tax increase"). This is an example of the use of
A) univariate descriptive statistics
B) inferential statistics
C) multivariate descriptive statistics
D) reductionist statistics

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This is an example of inferential statistics, as the survey results are being used to make inferences about the relationship between political party affiliation and support for a tax increase in the larger population of the local community.

A Survey Administered to a Random Sample Drawn from a Local