KurtBarlow

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Statistics1
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SkittlesProject
Introduction:
ThisSkittlesProjectisaprojectinwhichwewillapplystatisticstothenumberofcolored
skittlesinasampleof2.7OZbagofskittles.Doingthisprojectwillhelpustofigureouthow
toapplystatisticstofindingthefivenumbersummary,thestandarddeviationanda
differentgraphssuchashistograms,piecharts,andbargraphs.Tobegintheproject,we
willobtaina2.7OZbagoforiginalskittles.Thenopenthebagandseparatetheskittles
accordingtocolor.Thegoalistodeterminetheprobabilityofgettingacolorinabagof
skittles.

DataCollection:
Numberofred
candies
12

Numberof
orangecandies
14

Numberof
yellowcandies
19

Numberof
greencandies

Numberof
purplecandies

14

ClassData:

Numberofred
candies

Numberof
orangecandies

Numberof
yellowcandies

Numberof
greencandies

Numberof
purplecandies

513

438

444

487

483

Whenlookingatthetwocharts,Iamabletonoticethatthemajorityoftheskittlesarewithin
thesamerange.Ihaveonlyoneoutlier.Otherthanthat,thetwographsarewithinthesame
range.Theprobabilitiesofthecolorsbeinginthebackareallaroundtherangeof20%.
Thisroughlygiveseachcolorthesameprobabilityofbeinginthebagofskittles.

MyData:
IQR:7,Min:8,Q1:10,Median:14,Q3:16.5,Max:19

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

Betweenmydataandtheclassesdata,itappearsthatthetwotypesofgraphshavevery
closesimilarities.LikeIpredicted,mydatahasonnoticeableoutlier,whereastheclass
datahasnone.Meaningtheirprobabilityisallwithinacertainrange.Becausemysample
wassosmallitiscleartoseethattherewouldbevariationfromthemuchlargersample
sizeoftheclass.Thedistributionseemstohaveabellshapeforboththeclassdataand
mydata.Thesamplesseemtohavenormaldistribution.


Reflection:
Thedifferencebetweencategoricalandquantitativedataisthat,categoricalisdatathat
usescategories,meaningitdoesnothavemathematicalsignificance.Itishaslables.
Quantitativedatadoeshavenumberthathavemathematicalsignificance.Theboxplot
andparetochartsaresensibletorelatetocategoricaldatabecausetheyrepresentthe
colorandarenotrepresentingtheamountorindividualvalues.Thehistogramandpiechart
aresensibletorelatetoquantitativedatabecausetheyaremadebasedontheamountor
numbers.ThePiechartshowswhichcolorhasthemostnumberstoit.Forcategorical,the
numbersofeachcolorwouldmakesensebecausethenumberisrepresentingthecolor.
Forquantitativedata,wewouldusethefivenumarysystem,whichshowshowthenumber
ofskittleshavemathematicalsignificance.

HypothesisTestAndConfidenceIntervalEstimate:


Reflection:
Theconditionsfordoinghypothesistestare,weneedtohaveasamplesizethathasat
leastapopulationsizethatistentimesthesizeofsample(samplesizeisgreaterthanor
equalto1/10thofthepopulation).TheconditionsfordoingaConfidenceIntervalEstimate
are,thesamplemustberandomlyselectedandthesamplingdistributionisapproximately
normal.TheconditionsforboththeHypothesisTestandtheConfidenceIntervalEstimate
weremet.ApossibleerrordoingthisisthatIcouldmessupthenumberofbagsandthe
numberofindividualcandiesasthepopulation.Ihavetokeepbothofthemintheirown
position.Thesamplingmethodcouldbeimprovedbyverifyingallthedatabyhavingthe
classeachbringtheirownbagofskittlesintotheclassandverifythatitisthecorrect
weightandthencountouttheskittlesrighttheir.Thiswouldensurethatourdatawouldbe
moreaccurate.TheconclusionIcametois,the95%ConfidenceIntervalforyellowcandies
is(0.16705,0.20842).The95%confidenceIntervalforthemeanofthenumberofcandies
foreachbagis,(57.945,60.255).The98%ConfidenceIntervalforthestandarddeviation
foreachisbagis(22.164,63.691).Themeannumberofcandiesperbagisgreaterthan
55.