Distribution of Heavy Metals in the Soils Associated with the Commonly Used Pesticides in Cotton Fields

Table 2

Basic statistics parameters for the distribution of selected parameters (mg/kg) in soil samples ().

	Minimum	Maximum	Mean	Median	SD	SE	Variance	Kurtosis	Skewness	NEQS	BC
Pb (mg/kg)	10.93	21.85	16.18	16.49	2.68	0.372	7.184	−0.639	−0.261	25	18.9
Cr (mg/kg)	1.64	9.6	5.86	5.995	2.238	0.31	5.008	−0.902	−0.183	20	50.3
Co (mg/kg)	2.93	12.4	7.558	7.595	2.094	0.29	4.386	−0.291	0.077	10	0.392
Cu (mg/kg)	12.98	21.90	18.12	18.56	2.141	0.297	4.584	−0.332	−0.516	—	27.6
Ni (mg/kg)	15.3	29.97	22.16	22.25	3.666	0.508	13.44	−0.572	0.118	20	0.135
Cd (mg/kg)	0.347	1.019	0.585	0.538	0.175	0.024	0.031	0.104	0.961	0.5	0.14
Bulk density (Mgm^−3)	1.530	1.610	1.568	1.570	0.028	0.005	0.001	−1.333	−0.003	—	—
OC (%)	1.291	11.39	4.616	3.390	2.894	0.401	8.376	−0.248	1.074	—	4.5
pH	7.6	8.5	8.1	8.055	0.2	0.028	0.04	−0.07	−0.206	—	7.2
Conductivity (µS/cm)	980	1887	1412	1600.5	317.4	44.02	1.008 × 10^5	−1.777	−0.076	—	108
Cl^− (mg/kg)	4808	22438	12909	12338	6145.6	852.2	3.777 × 10^7	−1.288	0.271	—	987
(mg/kg)	2879	94434	35009	34470	10852	1505	1.178 × 10^8	18.54	2.807	—	843
(mg/kg)	4.009 × 10^3	9.297 × 10^4	4.710 × 10^4	4.0 × 10^4	2.159 × 10^4	2.993 × 10^3	4.660 × 10^8	1.028	1.447	—	419
Imidacloprid (µg/g)	2.3	205.9	64.45	55.6	62.12	8.613	3857	0.36	1.229	—	—
Emamectin (µg/g)	0.001	1305	296.7	59.9	431.2	59.8	1.859 × 10^5	0.414	1.351	—	—
Acetamiprid	11.40	1258.8	264.3	70	411.83	57.11	169600	0.968	1.635	—	—

BC = background levels (mean of three).