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"...failed to to take accommodation costs into account." - where the LINK to the formula used to calculate inflation for the UK?? "the version that does take those costs.." - where the LINK for this one also? "try 'scoring' as a key word" - you misspelled keyword, but that aside, i got...

but thanks for attempting on something so simple!

You didn't know how this relates to statistics. Here's your answer: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/IndexNumber.html http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=3889 http://www.answers.com/topic/index-number Here are some of the better links that helped me...

"it made no sense to me." - maybe you aren't familiar with indexes, because they call those indexes. "didn't even give a direct [site]." - not suppose to. "in this section are mathematicians" - a Statistician should probably know "you need to say exactly what you want." - already did, How To...

Here are two examples of types of indexes (there are thousands more): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-of-Life_Index

You should have asked... By index, I found out they are call "index numbers," though I couldn't have been any more specific initially since I'm not familiar with that topic. Did you even check the happiness index google link above... ? then you would have understood what I was trying to...

Nobody knows?... :(

Hi, I'm new to this. I've always wished to create an index, for hobby and all. Not the kind of index in lengthy books, but the statistical kind, like a happiness index - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=happiness+index&btnG=Google+Search Those kinds; I don't know if they have a...