Group

Project Combined Individual Parts- Hanah McCloy

Part 2

Sample Group Count Red Count Orange Count Yellow Count Green Count Purple # in
bag Hanah's Bag 11 13 18 9 10 61 Hanah's Proportions 18% 21% 30% 15% 16%
100% Class Proportions 19.52% 19.60% 20.72% 22.33% 17.83%

The Class data is split fairly even between all colors, which was roughly 1/5 of
the skittles per color. However my data has a much higher yellow count than the
class data. I believe my yellow count would be considered an outlier, and that
also pushed the other colors to be a bit smaller, just because the bags were all
very close to the same amount of skittles. It would be interesting to see how
these values differ based off of where they were purchased from, or some other
details like that.

Part 3

Total Candies The total candies in each of the bags was grouped fairly close
together, except for the one person who got 46, without the 46 the distribution
would have been roughly bell shaped or standard. My own bag had just one more
than the average--but that put me up to the75th percentile with just 61. The graphs
do reflect what I expected where most people are grouped closely together. The
only reason I can think of for how that one person got 46 total candies would be that
they had many broken candies so those werent counted. Otherwise I dont think
they would have measured the correct ounces. Categorical data would be data that
we can divide up into groups, like in the last part of the project where we showed
how many colors of each candy were in each bag. I feel the most descriptive graph
for this type of data would be a pareto chart, because frequency for each group is the
easiest way to identify and compare. In this data type it would be impossible to
make a boxplot that made any sense because the numbers for each category are not
dependant on each other. When calculating information for this data type one way I
found was most informative was mode, to see which group appeared more often.
You cant take a median from Red, Orange, Yellow, Green or Purple. Quantitative
data would be when you can attach numbers to the data, like in this current part of
the project where we counted the amount of skittles in each persons bag and
compared. The easiest and most informative graph here is the boxplot. This is the
first time I have ever learned about boxplots and I love how much information you
can immediately take in by glancing at it. This type of data can be summarized easily
with the 5 number summary. It is not as useful to know the mode in these data
types.