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Record W59237628

ON THE STOCHASTIC APPROACH TO INDEX NUMBERS

2010· article· en· W59237628 on OpenAlexaff
W. Erwin Diewert, Erwin Diewert

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicEconomic theories and models
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIndex (typography)Rest (music)Mathematical economicsSubject (documents)MathematicsEconomicsCalculus (dental)Computer sciencePhysics
DOInot available

Abstract

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“In mathematics disputes must soon come to an end, when the one side is proved and the other disproved. And where mathematics enters into economics, it would seem that little room could be left for long-continued disputation. It is therefore somewhat surprising that one economist after another takes up the subject of index-numbers, potters over it for a while, differs from the rest if he can, and then drops it. And so nearly sixty years have gone by since Jevons first brought mathematics to bear upon this question, and still economists are at loggerheads over it. Yet index-numbers involve the use of means and averages, and these being a purely mathematical element, demonstration ought soon to be reached, and then agreement should speedily follow.”

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.013
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.021

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.013
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.009
Scholarly communication0.0040.008
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.194
Teacher spread0.170 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2010
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