Research Article

Exposure to HAP and the Regional Pattern of Air-Related Morbidity in India: A Multivariate Analysis

Table 7

Descriptive statistics for variables in different clusters.

VariablesCluster 1Cluster 2Cluster 3

EXP
 Mean60.6062.2227.60
 Median8.009.006.00
 SD97.17108.2873.87
 Pseudo-SD92.6691.922.96
 Skewness2.403.405.72
 Kurtosis (normalized)8.5616.7645.52

Required transformation1/sqInverse1/sq

EAI
 Mean46.1055.6755.15
 Median50.0066.6766.67
 SD37.4034.0935.84
 Pseudo-SD61.7737.0637.06
 Skewness0.0075−0.34−0.36
 Kurtosis (normalized)−1.44−1.05−1.20

Required transformationRawRawRaw

VULN
 Mean6.366.476.37
 Median5.006.005.00
 SD1.641.671.65
 Pseudo-SD2.222.222.22
 Skewness0.630.510.63
 Kurtosis (normalized)−1.37−1.51−1.37

Required transformationTakes certain values,
no transformation
Takes certain values,
no transformation
Takes certain values,
no transformation

EMSN
 Mean9.549.814.39
 Median1.001.001.00
 SD14.7116.2211.19
 Pseudo-SD18.5318.530
 Skewness2.092.874.87
 Kurtosis (normalized)5.9211.1630.84

Required transformationTakes certain values,
no transformation
Takes certain values,
no transformation
Takes certain values,
no transformation

SD: standard deviation. Source: author’s calculation.