Hi Everyone. Am having a problem on how to get this information from Minitab if you have it installed in your pc. You can use other program, but be specific please. thanks guys.
  1. Use the sample dataset supplied in “US emissions of greenhouse gases.xls” file to solve these.
    1. Calculate the descriptive statistics (Mean, Standard Deviation, Quartiles) for the total amount of greenhouses gases emitted in between years “1996-2009”
    2. Construct a histogram for the distribution of the total amount of greenhouses gases emitted in years between “1996-2009”
    3. Comment on any possible outliers.
    4. Comment on the normality of the data.



Here is the dataGiggle)
Table 1. U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases, based on global warming potential, 1990-2009
(Million Metric Tons of Carbon Dioxide Equivalent)
Greenhouse Gas 1990
 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
 2006 2007 2008 2009
Carbon dioxide 5,040.9 4,997.2 5,106.2 5,216.7 5,297.3 5,353.4 5,539.8 5,607.5 5,643.6 5,709.1 5,900.3 5,807.7 5,866.8 5,923.3 6,031.3 6,055.2 5,961.6 6,059.5 5,865.5 5,446.8
Methane 768.8 769.6 772.4 744.2 745.4 732.7 721.7 706.4 688.5 669.0 663.1 649.3 650.9 660.6 661.6 669.2 678.5 690.9 724.2 730.9
Nitrous oxide 221.4 223.1 227.8 229.3 240.9 236.2 237.6 224.1 221.6 220.0 217.8 210.9 210.5 211.8 222.0 223.6 223.7 228.6 223.5 219.6
HFCs, PFCs, and SF6 102.1 92.9 97.5 97.1 100.0 119.4 130.4 138.1 154.2 151.8 154.0 141.5 151.8 145.4 157.0 161.3 163.6 171.4 169.9 178.2
Total 6,133.2
 6,082.8 6,203.9
 6,287.3 6,383.6 6,441.7 6,629.6 6,676.1 6,707.8 6,750.0 6,935.3 6,809.4 6,880.0 6,941.1 7,071.9 7,109.4 7,027.4 7,150.4 6,983.1 6,575.5
Difference from 2005 (82.0) 41.0 (126.3) (533.8)
Percent difference from 2005 -1.2% 0.6% -1.8% -7.5%
aHydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6).
Notes: Data in this table are revised from the data contained in the previous EIA report, Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States
2008, DOE/EIA-0573(2008) (Washington, DC, December 2009). Totals may not equal sum of components due to independent rounding.
Sources: Emissions: EIA estimates. Global Warming Potentials: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007: The
Physical Science Basis: Errata (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008), web site http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/Report/
AR4WG1_Errata_2008-12-01.pdf.