index.number.serie: Calculate an index number in serie

In IndexNumber: Index Numbers in Social Sciences

Description

This function determines index numbers “in serie” for those cases with an only product.

Usage

index.number.serie(x, name, opt.plot = FALSE, opt.summary = FALSE)

Arguments

x	It is a vector containing that magnitude to be studied for a product. Thus, we have length(x) values of it.
name	Chain of characters to indicate the name of the variable under study.
opt.plot	Logical option to indicate if a graphical descriptiony of the index number along the different stages is required. It takes the value TRUE or FALSE.
opt.summary	Logical option to indicate if a statistical summary of the index number is required. It takes the value TRUE or FALSE.

Value

Summary	Statistical summary (optional) of the index number along the considered period.
Index number	Table containing the values of the index number for the considered stages.
Graphical	Graphical summary (optional) of the index number along the considered period.

Author(s)

A. Saavedra-Nieves, P. Saavedra-Nieves

References

Index Number (2008). In: The Concise Encyclopedia of Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. <doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32833-1>

Examples

prices<-c(70,75,77,77,85,90,85,75,77,87,85,90,70,75,77,77,85,90)
index.number.serie(prices,"Prices",opt.plot=TRUE,opt.summary=TRUE)

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