Fill in the Blanks DIBM_U8_Business Statistics_W19_Activity 3Online version Fill in the blanks by Dayan Rajapakse 1 population statistics sample Inferential unwieldy Descriptive inferences statistics The totality of observations about which an inference may be drawn , or a generalization made , is called a . The part of the totality , which is observed for data collection and analysis to gain knowledge about the population , is called a . takes data from a sample and makes about the larger population from which the sample was drawn . deals with collecting , summarizing , and simplifying data , which are otherwise quite and voluminous .