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Adriana Coba*
*Master of Science in International Business Development‘s candidate, University of Neuchâtel, Semester autumn of 2010.
Abstract: This report pretends to demonstrate that exist a correlation between CO2 emissions by country and other factors
in 2007, which are: Electric power consumption, Transport sector gasoline fuel consumption per capita, Fossil fuel energy
consumption and Energy production.
This report pretends to demonstrate that exist a correlation Then, to prove the above argument (Thesis8) it has been
between CO2 emissions by country1 (dependent variable2) used linear regression methods. With SPSS9, the method
and other factors (Independent variables) in 20073, which used to choose the variables was ascendant: This for
are: obtain, in the first step, the explanatory variables that can
Electric power consumption 4 have more correlation with the dependent. Then the
Transport sector gasoline fuel consumption per following results were obtained:
capita5
Fossil fuel energy consumption 6
Table 1: Variables Included and excluded in the models - ascendant
Energy production7 approach
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dependent variable and all independent variables, being http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/co2_human.html,
able to say, that to the plane defined by the equation (Consulted 29.10.2010)
offers a setting to the point cloud. Then, the linear - Dictionary.com: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/thesis,
equation is: (Consulted 30.10.2010)
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a/causas/di-xido-de-carbono, (Consulted 30.10.2010)
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http://www.uncp.edu/home/collierw/ivdv.htm, (Consulted
29.10.2010)
- World bank: http://data.worldbank.org/ (Consulted 25.10.2010.
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According to Steel, R. G. D. and Torrie R2 is “the proportion of variability in a Greenpeace: http://www.greenpeace.org/espana/campaigns/energ-a/causas/di-
data set that is accounted for by the statistical model”. xido-de-carbono, (30.10.2010)