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The graphs reflect what I expected to see. They seem to represent a fairly even
distribution of colors. I was surprised that there would be so many orange and so
few green, and I was surprised to see that some people had quite a few more
skittles in their individual bags.
There was one person with 110 total skittles and the average seemed to be
between 60 and 70. These outliers will skew the mean towards the positive
direction. However the median will stay the same.
I had a lot higher proportion of purple than the total proportion of all peoples
purples, but everything else appears to be about normal.
these on categorical data you would have to run many different trials of the
same study repeatedly to turn the categorical data into a quantitative form
that is conducive to these calculations. Ratios and proportions are things that
you would care about calculating with categorical data, since it is much more
important to measure the category against the sample population than it is
to compare it to other variables. Also, categorical data cannot be measured
or manipulated mathematically in the same say that quantitative data can
be manipulated because it does not depend on numerical values but rather
categorical names.
z / 2 p (1 p)/n
z / 2
= 2.58
t /2
s/n
60 ) = 0.6579
( n1 ) s / < < ( n1 ) s /
2
3.2619
Discuss and interpret (with complete sentences) the results of each of your
three interval estimates.
The 99% confidence interval estimate for the population proportion of
yellow candies means that there is 99% confidence that the actual
proportion of yellow candies is between 0.1785 and 0.2128. The 95%
confidence interval estimate for the population mean number of candies per
bag means that there is 95% confidence that the actual mean of the number
of candies per bag is between 58.7921 and 60.1079. The 98% confidence
interval estimate for the population standard deviation of the number of
candies per bag means that there is 98% confidence that the actual standard
deviation for number of candies per bag is between 2.1243 and 3.2619 .
In this project I learned how to work with a team to analyze and determine
statistics for a sample population. In this case bags of skittles and their
content colors were the sample population. The mathematics and statistics
skills I have learned in this project will help me to more accurately problem