The Making of Index Numbers

Fisher, I. (1922). The Making of Index Numbers: A Study of Their Varieties, Tests, and Reliability. Houghton Mifflin.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1922

Link

https://archive.org/details/makingofindexnum00fishrich

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decision_science

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Primes

• Reference-Point Dependence
  • The claim to be presenting facts rather than a framing does not survive the observation that the same facts against a different origin support the opposite headline.

    This sourceTreats the choice of base period and comparison formula as constitutive of any reported change rather than as neutral bookkeeping.

Domain-specific

• Index (Economics)
  • Setting a base to 100 makes later values relative comparisons rather than quantities with independent units.

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