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Skittles Project: Statistical Analysis

This document describes a student's math project analyzing the distribution of Skittles in individual bags compared to the class data. The student separated Skittles by color in their bag, recording the counts. They then combined their data with the class' to create graphs like pie charts and histograms. The student found their bag varied significantly from the class averages, concluding one bag cannot represent the whole data set. They also performed calculations like the five-number summary and confidence intervals on the class data.

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Skittles Project: Statistical Analysis

This document describes a student's math project analyzing the distribution of Skittles in individual bags compared to the class data. The student separated Skittles by color in their bag, recording the counts. They then combined their data with the class' to create graphs like pie charts and histograms. The student found their bag varied significantly from the class averages, concluding one bag cannot represent the whole data set. They also performed calculations like the five-number summary and confidence intervals on the class data.

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DeShaylaTran

MWF10:00am11:00am
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Math1040:SkittlesProject
Introduction
TheSkittlesProjectisanassignmentgiventoapplystatisticalconceptsbycalculatingthe
[Link]
[Link],a2.17ouncebagofSkittlesmustbe
[Link],separatethedifferentcolorsofSkittlesintopiles,thencount
[Link]
classtocreateaPieChart,alongwithaParetoChart,[Link]
FiveNumberSummary,thestandarddeviation,andthemeantomakeaHistogramanda
[Link],evaluatetheinformationtodrawupwitha
conclusion.
OrganizingandDisplayingCategoricalData:Colors
MyData
Numberofred
candies
6

Numberof
orangecandies

Numberof
yellowcandies

12

Numberof
greencandies

Numberof
purplecandies

15

11

TheClassData
Numberofred
candies
513

Numberof
orangecandies
438

Numberof
yellowcandies
444

Numberof
greencandies

Numberof
purplecandies

487

483

Aftercreatingthesegraphs,itcanbeseenthateachcolorofskittlesisextremelyclosetoequivalent.
ThesegraphsdoreflectwhatIwasexpectingtoseeinbeingthat,withalargequantityofskittlebags,
[Link]
owndata,duetothefactthatthenumbersofmyskittleshadvaried,[Link],itcan
beseenthatonebagofskittlescannotbeusedtodetermineawholeclasssetofskittles.

OrganizingandDisplayingQuantitativeData

Aneasywaytotocalculatethe5NumberSummary,inadditiontothemeanandthestandard
deviation,istoplugthenumbersofthecollecteddataintoacalculatorbypressingthestats
[Link],addupthetotalofeachbagofskittlesfromtheclassseparately.

ClassData:IQR5,Min52,Q157,Median60,Q362,Max67

Afterviewingthesegraphs,itcanbeperceivedthattheamountofskittlesinabagvaries
between52and67however,anindividualismorelikelytoreceiveabagcontainingaround60
skittles..Theshapeofthegraphisskewedleftsubsequently,itisextremelyclosetoabell
[Link]
[Link],mybagwas
consideredasanoutlierontheboxplot.Mybagincluded49skittleswhereas,themajorityof
[Link],itcanbeseenthatonebagcannot
representthedataforotherbagsofskittles.

Reflection
Thedifferencebetweencategoricalandquantitativedataisthatcategoricaldataconsistsof
namesorlabelsthatarenotnumbersrepresentingcountsormeasurementswhereas,
[Link]
Chartissensibleforcategoricaldatabecausethenumberrepresentstheamountofcolorseach
grouphastherefore,[Link]
essentialforquantitativedataforreasonbeing,[Link]
[Link]
play,thedistinctamountofcolorsofskittleswouldmakesenseforcategoricaldatabecausethe
[Link],thefivenumbersummarywouldbesensibleinbeingthat
thenumbershavenumericalsignificance,[Link],particulargraphsare
significantforeitherqualitativeorquantitativedata.

ConfidenceIntervalEstimatesandHypothesisTests

Reflection
Whencalculatingintervals,thedataisrequiredtoconsistofarange,orinterval,ofvaluesrather
[Link],wehaveabettersenseofhowwellthe
[Link],anullandalternativehypothesismustbepresentedinthe
[Link],weare
[Link]
fitstheprerequisitesbecauseIwasabletofindreliableinformationthathadcorrelatedwithmy
[Link]:usingthewrongcalculator
function,plugginginwronginformation,[Link]
hypothesisistruebutrejectedorwhenthenullhypothesisisfalseyet,[Link]
thesamplingmethod,[Link]
frommyresearchare:the99%confidenceintervalestimateforthetrueproportionofyellow
candiesarebetween(0.16705,0.20842),the95%intervalforthetruemeannumberofcandies
perbagis(57.945,60.255),98%confidenceintervalforthestandarddeviationforthenumber
ofcandiesperbagis(22.164,63.691),andthemeannumberofcandiesperbagisgreaterthan
55.

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