Index Numbers in Social Sciences
Calculate an aggregate index number
Calculate the Edgeworth index number
Calculate the Fisher index number
Calculate an index number in chain
Calculate an index number in serie
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Calculate the Laspeyres index number
Calculate the Paasche index number
We provide an R tool for teaching in Social Sciences. It allows the computation of index numbers. It is a measure of the evolution of a fixed magnitude for only a product of for several products. It is very useful in Social Sciences. Among others, we obtain simple index numbers (in chain or in serie), index numbers for not only a product or weighted index numbers as the Laspeyres index (Laspeyres, 1864), the Paasche index (Paasche, 1874) or the Fisher index (Lapedes, 1978).