The Making of Index Numbers: A Study of Their Varieties, Tests, and Reliability

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ERRATIC BIASED AND FREAKISH INDEX NUMBERS
83
The Four Systems of Weighting the Price Relatives for 1917
97
Dispersion of 36 Price Relatives 1 before the World War
109
THE TWO REVERSAL TESTS AS FINDERS OF FORMULE
118
VIIXRECTIFYING FORMULE BY CROSSING THEM
136
RECTIFYING FORMULE BY CROSSING THEIR WEIGHTS
184
THE ENLARGED SERIES OF FORMULE
199
VX WHAT SIMPLE INDEX NUMBER IS BEST?
206
WHAT IS THE BEST INDEX NUMBER?
213
PAGE
239
Worthless Index Numbers
244
Poor Index Numbers
245
Fair Index Numbers 4 Good Index Numbers
246
COMPARING all the Index NUMBERS WITH THE IDEAL
247
Very Good 6 Excellent and 7 Superlative Index Numbers
255
Simple Geometric and Simple Median compared with Ideal for Different Numbers of Commodities
263
Gaps for Years 045 of Formula 1 9 23 141
268
THE SOCALLED CIRCULAR TEST
270
Largest Gaps for 3Around 4Around 5
281
OTHER PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS
330
Effect of Number of Commodities on Index Numbers
338
SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK
350
NOTES TO TEXT
371
Finding the Simple Mode
372
Different Cross Weightings of 53 and 54
401
compared with its Cross Weight Rivals
404
Distribution of 1437 Price Relatives Forward and Backward
409
THE INFLUENCE OF WEIGHTING
439
Simple vs Cross Weighted Index Numbers
440
Weighting is relatively unimportant
448
AN INDEX NUMBER AN AVERAGE OF RATIOS
451
LANDMARKS IN THE HISTORY OF INDEX NUMBERS
458
LIST OF FORMULE FOR INDEX NUMBERS
461
NUMERICAL DATA AND EXAMPLES
489
INDEX NUMBERS BY 134 FORMULE FOR PRICES BY THE FIXED BASE SYSTEM AND IN NOTE WORTHY CASES THE CHAIN SYSTEM
498
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
519
INDEX
521

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OtsikkoThe Making of Index Numbers: A Study of Their Varieties, Tests, and Reliability
Numero 1 / Publications of the Pollak Foundation for Economic Research
KirjoittajaIrving Fisher
KustantajaHoughton Mifflin, 1922
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