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Section 3:
Means and Medians
Trial Award Patterns
Probability
Standard Deviation
Normal Distributions
Logarithms
Awards Test
 

Logarithms

Graphing the data

Figure 1 shows the distribution of the punitive awards (in logs), and compares it to a normal distribution (in red).

Unlike the untransformed variables, the logarithms of the variables behave reasonably similarly to a normal distribution.


 
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Cornell University
Cornell Law School
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