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Table 11
Descriptive statistics of the excursion for the Ontario dataset

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Effective
Mean
Median
Standard deviation
Ammonia
6,451
0.04700
0.000
0.4900
Cadmium
6,367
3.43200
0.000
12.1820
Chloride
6,383
0.05000
0.000
0.5850
Chromium
6,366
0.70100
0.000
40.1550
Copper
6,367
0.27200
0.000
8.8180
Nickel
6,367
0.00001
0.000
0.0006
Nitrate
6,452
0.20900
0.000
0.6210
Nitrite
6,452
0.18700
0.000
2.4790
pH
6,498
0.00030
0.000
0.0230
Phosphorus
6,462
1.28700
0.033
3.4660
Lead
6,367
0.48300
0.000
3.5450
Suspended solids
6,448
0.40000
0.000
2.5550
Temperature
6,498
0.00198
0.000
0.0170
Zinc
6,367
0.05900
0.000
0.6930
Data source: Data come from federal, provincial and joint water quality surveillance programs.
Table source: Statistics Canada, 2007, Environment Accounts and Statistics Technical Paper Series, volume 2007, number 3, Behaviour Study on the Water Quality Index of the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment, catalogue number 16-001-MWE.