Modeling the Relationship between Rice Yield and Climate Variables Using Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques

Table 1

Summary of the statistics of rice yield data.

Statistics	Actual yield (t/ha)
	Kurunegala/Maha	Kurunegala/Yala	Puttalam/Maha	Puttalam/Yala
Mean	3.96	3.59	3.78	3.63
Median	3.94	3.62	3.77	3.65
Range	1.49	1.04	1.49	0.92
First quartile (Q1)	3.61	3.45	3.53	3.42
Third quartile (Q3)	4.13	3.76	4.00	3.83