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Using carbon emissions data to ‘heat up’ descriptive statistics
Author(s) -
Brooks Robert
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2011.00479.x
Subject(s) - descriptive statistics , outlier , skewness , measure (data warehouse) , econometrics , statistics , greenhouse gas , environmental science , economics , computer science , mathematics , data mining , ecology , biology
This article illustrates using carbon emissions data in an introductory statistics assignment. The carbon emissions data has desirable characteristics including: choice of measure; skewness; and outliers. These complexities allow research and public policy debate to be introduced.