mandms {UsingR}R Documentation

Proportions of colors in various M and M's varieties

Description

A bag of the candy M and M's has many different colors. Each large production batch is blended to the ratios given in this data set. The batches are thoroughly mixed and then the individual packages are filled by weight using high-speed equipment, not by count.

Usage

data(mandms)

Format

A data frame with 5 observations on the following 6 variables.

blue
percentage of blue
brown
percentage of brown
green
percentage of green
orange
percentage of orange
red
percentage of red
yellow
percentage of yellow

Source

This data is attributed to an email sent by Masterfoods USA, A Mars, Incoporated Company. This email was archived at the Math Forum, http://www.mathforum.org.

Examples

data(mandms)
bagfull = c(15,34,7,19,29,24)
names(bagfull) = c("blue","brown","green","orange","red","yellow")
prop = function(x) x/sum(x)
chisq.test(bagfull,p = prop(mandms["milk chocolate",]))
chisq.test(bagfull,p = prop(mandms["Peanut",]))

[Package UsingR version 0.1-12 Index]