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Re: st: Re: Transforming Inflation
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Re: Transforming Inflation
Date
Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:11:11 +0000
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Austin Nichols <[email protected]> wrote:
> No--they shouldn't be symmetrically treated...
>
> I think the poster wanted
> tw function (x)/(100 +x), ra(-20 80)
>
> which one might call twice the coefficient of
> variation, using two observations [on prices], as on
> page 4 of http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nicholsa/an_dds.pdf
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Actually, 100% deflation (prices drop to zero) and 100% inflation
>> (prices double) don't seem quite symmetric.
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