The Attorney General of the State of California Wanted to Study

Short Answer

The Attorney General of the state of California wanted to study criminal law in Los Angeles last year.He randomly selected 46,000 criminal records from the population of 1.5 million convicts in Los Angeles last year.From this sample,he calculated the proportion of litigations,the average amount of money involved per litigation,and the proportion of litigations resulting in a conviction.These calculations are all examples of doing ____________________ statistics.