chain index

Chained volume measure An index number from a chain index of quantity.

It is a seasonally adjusted chained index in which goods are split by final consumption.

Nonetheless, note that, when chain indices are in use, the numbers cannot be said to be "in period " prices.

Mills, J."Chain indexing and the classified catalogue."

The new indexes, sometimes called chain indexes, use a rolling average of different years' prices instead of prices of a single year.

The relative index has been influential in indexing practice, and many of its principles are incorporated into indexing methods, such as chain indexing.

Chain indexing and LISA.

In contrast, the Toda field theory is achieved by introducing a new spacial coordinate which is independent of the chain index label.

Also, the PCEPI uses a chained index which compares one quarter's price to the last quarter's instead of choosing a fixed base.

Recently, the Chained Consumer Price Index C-CPI-U, a chained index, was introduced.

This year has been a different story: the S.& P. retail food chain index is up 5.3 percent, compared with a loss of 2.5 percent for the S.& P. 500.

The ability to place formed sheet into an inline trim station for more precise trim registration has been hugely improved due to the common use of electric servo motors for chain indexing versus air cylinders, gear racks, and clutches on older machines.

The Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Deep UV Photolithography Food Chain index contains the stocks of ASM Lithography, Cymer, Dupont Photomasks, Etec Systems and Photronics.