95% confidence interval results:

p : Proportion of successes
Method: Standard-Wald
Proportion Count
Total
Sample
Std. Err.
Proportion
P

294

1496

26

U.Limit

0.1965240 0.0102737 0.1763879 0.2166602

6
39
1
2

99% confidence interval results:

Outcomes in : tot. candy
Success : 1496
p : Proportion of successes
Method: Standard-Wald
Variable
Count
Total
Sample
prop.
Bag tot.

L.Limit

Std. Err.

l. limit

u.limit

Nan

Nan

98% confidence interval results:

2 : Variance of variable
Variabl
Sample var.
DF

L. Limit

U.Limit

Tot. candie/bag 8.5266667

4.7613042

18.849778

24

95% confidence interval results:

p : Proportion of successes
Method: Standard-Wald
Proportion Count
Total
Sample
prop.
P (green)

305

1496

Std.err.

L.limit

U.limit

0.2038770 0.0104161 0.1834616 0.2242923

1
78
7
4

A confidence interval is an interval in which a measurement or trial falls

corresponding to a given probability. Usually the CI of interest is symmetrically
placed around the mean, they tell you the most likely range of the unknown
population average or percentage, CI is a good way of understanding the
sampling error in averages and percentages in our research, they come up with
the location and precision of a measure, a few things to impact the confidence
intervl such as the width, the sample size, if sample is small it makes wider
intervals and variability measured by the std. Dev. Populations and samples with
more varibility also make wider confidence intervals.

Hypothesis test results:

: Mean of variable
H0 : = 0
HA : 0
Variable

Sample
mean

Tot.cand.bag 59.88

Std.err.

DF

0.58400913 24

T-stat

P-value

102.53264

<0.0001

A Hypothesis test evaluates two mutual statements about a population to

find out which statement is best supported by the samply data that we have, each
of the test requires us to state a null hypothesis and a alternative hypothesis, so if
one is the then the other must be false, and it has to go the other way around as
well.
When we sat that a finding is statistically signisicant its thanks to the wonderful
hypothesis test! But if out sample findings are not likely, given the null hypothesis
then we can reject the null hypothesis this involves comparing our P-value to the
significance level and rejecting the null hypothesis when the p-value is less than
the significance level.
I've learned a lot from this project, I've learned about that in statistics you
need a very large sample for things to be true, and that even though somethings
might seem like a large sample in reality it is not. This class has thought me a lot
about how I will continue on to other classes, especially in how I do research and
how to reject some research that there is not enough information on, and I leared
a ton about how to use statcrunch which I have enjoyed because I'm not very
computer savy but due to this project and the other ones we've done in class as
well have really benefited me in many ways. The project has helped me really look
at information in a whole new perspective, I think about many other possible
outcomes or things that may of not been taking into consideration, like in our
project we did not consider the skittles that were deformed, only whole ones, so
even now as the project is finished I find myself thinking about what the data
would of looked like had we considered all the skittles including the deformed
ones.
Now as I take all this new information I will look at the information that the
newspaper or the media feeds me, I think to myself when someone says
statistics show that... I think I wonder who was involved and how did they
gather the information to come up with the results, its very interesting even to
see how my view has changed on simple things that I would of never considered
before.