Mathematical Modeling of the Price Volatility of Maize and Sorghum between 1960 and 2022

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics of Maize and Sorghum Returns

Statistics Maize Sorghum

 Mean  0.003134  0.003783
 Median  0.000000  0.000000
 Maximum  0.346507  0.407689
 Minimum -0.217172 -0.242511
 Std. Dev.  0.054711  0.057195
 Skewness  0.383605  0.644740
 Kurtosis  6.732107  8.499555
 Jarque-Bera  439.7511  966.5425
 Probability  0.000000  0.000000
 Sum  2.278055  2.750142
 Sum Sq. Dev.  2.173113  2.374917
 Observations  727  727