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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Apr 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Occup Environ Hyg. 2007 Nov;4(11):848–854. doi: 10.1080/15459620701643347

TABLE II.

OC Summary Statistics (in μ/gm3)

Smoking Status
Location
P & D
LH
Window Status
P&D Drivers (N = 576) LH Drivers (N = 349) Terminal Background (N = 348) Non- smokern (N = 366) Smoker (N = 111) Non- smoker (N = 173) Smoker (N = 78) Open (N = 193) Shut (N = 173)
Arithmetic
 Mean 18.5 21.3 5.3 13.6 33.5 17.5 32.3 13.9 13.2
 SD 18.8 17.1 3.0 6.3 35.4 8.8 29.5 5.9 6.7
Geometric
 Mean 14.8 18.0 4.6 12.4 24.2 15.8 25.7 12.9 11.9
 SD 1.8 1.7 1.7 1.5 2.1 1.6 1.9 1.5 1.6

Notes: Using Wilcoxon rank sum tests, no significant differences were detected between driver types. Smoker exposures significantly higher than nonsmokers for all concentrations. Open windows significantly higher than closed windows for all concentrations. The geometric mean (GM) is an estimator of the median, and the geometric standard deviation (GSD) is a unitless multiplicative factor, e.g., one standard deviation above the GM is GM × GSD.