Dylan Reynolds

Math 1010
8 April 2016
Term Project Part 3: Individual Work
1. The shape of the distribution of the data according to the histogram is skewed to the right,
mostly because of some outliers like 110 and 88 bag totals. On the boxplot it is also
pretty stretched because of the outliers and the mean is pulled towards them. This is
pretty much what I expected especially while reviewing the data and seeing the 110
candy total in one bag, how did that happen?! I know it would definitely skew the data a
bit. I think my bag compared to the rest fits in pretty well because the total in my bag is
61 and the mean was around 61 as well. That is almost exact. Except you do think about
what the class mean would have been if there were no unusually large totals like 110 and
88. With a total bag count of 64 I guess you could say it was likely that we would get
some unusual observations and that the numbers would not come out as you would
expect. Someone was for sure going to miss count the candies or buy a bag too
large/small. It was bound to happen with this large sample size.
2. Categorical and quantitative data are both used as a way of measuring data collected in
the field of statistics. Although they are both a part of statistics, they do have their
differences. Categorical data deals with things that can be put into categories or groups.
They are put into a countable number and either are in some sort of order or are not.
Working with proportions is a part of working with this type of data. Examples of this
kind of data are: Gender, type of food, yes/no, and heads/tails. Quantitative on the other
hand deals with numbers and measurements. These data can be ordered. Here you work

with the mean. Examples of this kind of data are: Time (seconds, hours, etc.), height, and
speed of a car (mph).
Graphs are a part of looking at and breaking down categorical and quantitative data. For
categorical data, there are some options of graphs that you can used. Some of the most
commonly used are dotplots, bar graphs, and pie charts. These make sense to use when
breaking down categorical data because they show the proportions in a well and
organized manner. These display accurately how each proportion of the whole is
distributed. For quantitative data you may want to use histograms, boxplots, and
stemplots. These graphs make it easy to see the numbers that are distributed from lowest
to highest and to identify the mean and median.
Calculations are the another key alongside graphs that assist us in analyzing and breaking
down data, whether categorical or quantitative. Some calculations that would be used for
categorical data would be: The equations involved in calculating the proportion for a
population parameter, a one proportion z-test for hypotheses, calculations for finding the
standard deviation, p-value and standardized statistic are also very important. With
quantitative data you would want to use calculations such as: Mean equations for finding
the population parameter, confidence intervals, t-intervals, t-test for hypotheses, also
finding the mean, median and mode. Equations and steps to finding the p-value, standard
deviation and sampling distribution would also be necessary.