Spatial Variation of Arsenic in Soil, Irrigation Water, and Plant Parts: A Microlevel Study

Table 1

Descriptive statistics of water, soil, straw, husk, and grain As of Faridpur.

Parameters	Water; (ppb)	Soil; (ppm)	Straw; (ppm)	Husk; (ppm)	Grain; (ppm)
Mean	163.8	13.15	2.89	0.75	0.23
Median	162.9	12.90	2.25	0.65	0.22
Mode	159.4	13.26	1.19	0.66	0.15
Min	138.0	6.99	0.46	0.14	0.08
Max	191.3	18.99	9.50	1.87	0.45
Sd	1.83	2.51	2.01	0.38	0.08
Skewness	−0.11	0.09	1.18	1.13	0.45
Kurtosis	−1.45	−0.18	0.90	0.87	−0.28
CV (%)	11.16	19.10	69.36	51.14	34.85
Transform	None	None	LN	SQRT	SQRT