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  2. Index (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    Sample of a well maintained data [clarification needed]. In statistics and research design, an index is a composite statistic – a measure of changes in a representative group of individual data points, or in other words, a compound measure that aggregates multiple indicators.

  3. Index (economics) - Wikipedia

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    An index number is an economic data figure reflecting price or quantity compared with a standard or base value. [5] [6] The base usually equals 100 and the index number is usually expressed as 100 times the ratio to the base value. For example, if a commodity costs

  4. List of price index formulas - Wikipedia

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    The Marshall-Edgeworth index, credited to Marshall (1887) and Edgeworth (1925), [11] is a weighted relative of current period to base period sets of prices. This index uses the arithmetic average of the current and based period quantities for weighting. It is considered a pseudo-superlative formula and is symmetric. [12]

  5. List of statistics articles - Wikipedia

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    Sample mean and covariance – redirects to Sample mean and sample covariance; Sample mean and sample covariance; Sample maximum and minimum; Sample size determination; Sample space; Sample (statistics) Sample-continuous process; Sampling (statistics) Simple random sampling; Snowball sampling; Systematic sampling; Stratified sampling; Cluster ...

  6. Price index - Wikipedia

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    A price index (plural: "price ... Most CPIs and employment cost indices from Statistics Canada, ... Here is an example with the Laspeyres index, where ...

  7. Statistics - Wikipedia

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    Two main statistical methods are used in data analysis: descriptive statistics, which summarize data from a sample using indexes such as the mean or standard deviation, and inferential statistics, which draw conclusions from data that are subject to random variation (e.g., observational errors, sampling variation). [4]

  8. Qualitative variation - Wikipedia

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    There are several types of indices used for the analysis of nominal data. Several are standard statistics that are used elsewhere - range, standard deviation, variance, mean deviation, coefficient of variation, median absolute deviation, interquartile range and quartile deviation.

  9. Composite measure - Wikipedia

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    Composite measure in statistics and research design refer to composite measures of variables, i.e. measurements based on multiple data items. [1] An example of a composite measure is an IQ test, which gives a single score based on a series of responses to various questions. Three common composite measures include: