M&M Project

M&M Project

Strayer University

Statistics

08/20/2011

The main purpose of this project was to determine statistical data analysis of M&M candies. However to determine what is statistical data analysis we must first try to define the term statistic in the first place. Statistic to me is a set of techniques that are used in collecting, analyzing, presenting, and interpreting data. The statistical method we used helps in a variety of occupations and also helps people to identify study and solve many complex issues in businesses and the entire economic world. It also helps us to understand complex data by make it simple so as to help in decision making processes. In this segment of the project I am performing a statistical analysis on m&m candies based on different colors in different bags. Different statistical methods will be perform during the entire process and based on those I am going to make a conclusion.

Part 1

In this process the sum of all the candies based on different colors was tallied. The second stage was to find the mean or average of all the different colors. Below is the summary of the report based on my calculation:

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Blue | Orange | Green | Yellow | Red | Brown | Num. of Candies in Bag |

379 | 356 | 359 | 329 | 269 | 286 | 1978 |

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0.1916 | 0.18 | 0.1815 | 0.1663 | 0.136 | 0.1446 |

The table above shows the totals and averages of different colors of m&m candies in different bags. The mean in this case is the sum of the data entries divided by the number of entries. The next thing that was done was to represent the data in a histogram. A histogram in this case is the graphical representation showing a visual impression of the distribution of the data. This consists of the frequencies erected over discrete intervals otherwise known as the bins.

Part 2

Part 3

In the next process I used the technique of finding the sample proportion of...