Table 2– Descriptive statistics for selected daily exposure measurements during the study period (4 weeks in 2007–2008) in Australia
ExposuresMean±sdMedianIQRRange
24-h average temperature °C15.1±4.6615.111.8–17.64.27–31.0
Maximum temperature °C20.0±5.7619.415.4–23.59.50–39.9
Minimum temperature °C10.5±4.3510.57.30–13.60.10–24.1
8-h moving average ozone# ppb25.3±8.6324.619.9–30.00.88–65.9
24-h average nitrogen dioxide μg·m−39.89±6.278.915.26–13.20.05–35.4
Relative humidity %71.0±13.173.063.0–80.032.0–94.1

  • IQR: interquartile range. #: average ozone of the previous 8 h for each hour of the day.