The Making of Tests for Index Numbers : Mathematical Methods of Descriptive Statistics /

Arthur Vogt has devoted a great deal of his scientific efforts to both person and work of Irving Fisher. This book, written with Jànos Barta, gives an excellent impression of Fisher's great contributions to the theory of the price index on the one hand. On the other hand, it continues Fisher�...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Vogt, Arthur
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Barta, János
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint : Physica, 1997.
Subjects:	Statistics. Economics > Statistics. Economics. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Wolfgang Eichhorn
Preface
Acknowledgement
Introduction
About Irving Fisher
Price indexes
Traditional treating of properties of price indexes
Modern treating of properties of indexes: their automatic generation
A new axiom system for price indexes
First generalisations: Other interpretations of the "prices" and "quantities"
Second generalisation: Functions other than the scalar product
Third generalisation: Other statistical measures and their properties
Bibliography
Annexes.