| Article ID: | iaor201215 |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 25 |
| End Page Number: | 30 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2012 |
| Journal: | Teaching Statistics |
| Authors: | Brooks Robert |
| Keywords: | statistics: general |
This article illustrates using carbon emissions data in an introductory statistics assignment. The carbon emissions data has desirable characteristics including: choice of measure; skewness; and outliers. These complexities allow research and public policy debate to be introduced.