  The phosphate data of the World Ocean Database 2013 are extensively
statistically analyzed by splitting the measurement results into a long scale,
i.e., climatological, and a short scale part. Means, medians, absolute and
relative standard deviations, interquartile ranges, quartile coefficients of
dispersion, correlations and covariances are estimated and analyzed. The
underlying probability distributions are investigated using visual inspection
as well as statistical tests. All presented methods are applicable to other
data as long as they satisfy the postulated assumptions.
