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Nitrous Oxide (thous. Tons)<br />

Mean 46.35<br />

Standard Error 9.395205<br />

Median 36<br />

Mode 40<br />

Standard Deviation 42.01663<br />

Sample Variance 1765.397<br />

Kurtosis 0.09474<br />

Skewness 0.949789<br />

Range 136<br />

M<strong>in</strong>imum 0<br />

Maximum 136<br />

Sum 927<br />

Count 20<br />

30%<br />

25%<br />

20%<br />

15%<br />

10%<br />

5%<br />

0%<br />

Nitrous Oxide Distribution<br />

Nitrous Oxide (thous. Tons)<br />

The distribution of nitrous oxide emissions is skewed to the right <strong>in</strong>dicat<strong>in</strong>g that most states have<br />

relatively low emissions, whereas fewer states have relatively high emissions. We note that the<br />

median is a good measure, <strong>in</strong>dicat<strong>in</strong>g that 36 thousand tons is the 50 th percentile. There are two<br />

outliers of 136 thousand tons. For this value,<br />

, <strong>in</strong>dicat<strong>in</strong>g that at least around<br />

75% of all values <strong>in</strong> the data set are with<strong>in</strong> 2.1 standard deviations of the mean. Thus, 136 can be<br />

considered a mild outlier.<br />

3.2 Jo<strong>in</strong>t Probability<br />

<strong>Statistics</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Decision</strong>-<strong>Mak<strong>in</strong>g</strong> <strong>in</strong> Bus<strong>in</strong>ess © Milos Podmanik Page 229

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