Standard errors as weights in multilateral price indexes

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 366-377

  Hill, Robert J ^a   Timmer, Marcel P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

International Comparisons Program; Multilateral price index; Reliability measure; Spanning tree; Stochastic approach; Weighted Eltet K ves Szulc

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746344648     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: 15372707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/073500105000000270     Document Type: Article

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