Do the Largest Firms Grow the Fastest? The Case of U.S. Dairies



Table 1: 1992 Agricultural sales range, median, and sample distribution moments

for cohorts

Cohort

Range
($1,000)

Median

($1,000)

Mean

($1,000)

Standard
Deviation
($1,000)

Skewness

Coefficient

Kurtosis

Coefficient

Л

<37∏

^25

^24

10

-0.32

1.32

"2

37-58

“48

18

1

-0.04

0.98

58-76

“67

IT

"6

-0.02

1.07

76-94

"85

"85

"6

0.00

1.04

^5

94-114

104

104

"6

0.04

1.22

"6

114-136

124

125

1

0.05

1.26

7∏

136-169

151

152

10

0.14

1.40

^8

169-221

192

193

15

0.17

IH

"9

221-330

“262

167

H

0.37

1.97

10

> 330

190

^777

"940

9.05

169.07

a Sample size: 73,406. Data source: Agricultural Census, (USDA, 1992)

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