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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 19.
Published in final edited form as: Atmos Environ (1994). 2012 Dec 1;62:97–106. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.06.038

Table 3.

GEV parameters and goodness-of-fit (p-value) for average VOC exposures (μg m−3) in RIOPA.

VOCs Top 10% (n = 24)
Top 5% (n = 12)
Shape Location Scale p-value Shape Location Scale p-value
Benzene 0.4 9.1 2.4 0.876 30.2 13.6 3.6 0.684
Toluene 1.6 35.8 7.3 0.672 0.6 63.6 19.2 0.829
Ethylbenzene 1.2 6.3 1.7 0.951 0.8 10.6 3.9 0.943
m,p-Xylene 0.8 19.9 6.6 0.963 1.2 28.7 6.9 0.905
o-Xylene 0.9 6.8 2.1 0.900 1.8 10.0 1.3 0.915
MTBE 0.6 36.3 12.5 0.988 0.9 53.0 11.4 0.958
Styrene 1.3 3.9 1.6 0.676 0.9 8.4 2.8 0.895
1,4-DCB 0.5 258.0 188.0 0.991 0.5 516.0 234.9 0.953
TCE 1.1 1.7 0.8 0.987 1.7 2.8 1.0 0.909
PERC 1.0 5.9 2.6 0.882 0.7 11.4 4.2 0.988
Chloroform 0.7 5.5 1.6 0.954 1.1 7.6 1.7 0.943
CTC 0.7 0.9 0.1 0.854 0.7 1.1 0.1 0.991
D-Limonene 0.6 85.8 20.0 0.725 0.4 124.8 19.7 0.890
α-Pinene 1.1 18.0 4.0 0.959 1.7 23.4 6.0 0.797
β-Pinene 0.9 18.2 6.5 0.897 0.1 35.2 13.8 0.905

p-values shown for Anderson–Darling tests.

p-value >0.05 indicating that observations fit to generalized extreme value distributions.