 | United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics - 1915 - 340 pages
...which is not always true of medians. They can not be made to give apparently inconsistent results like arithmetic means. When published as sums of money,...very great advance in the price of a few articles, arid yet, unlike medians, they allow every change in the price of every article to influence the result.... | |
 | Charles Franklin Dunbar, Frank William Taussig, Abbott Payson Usher, Alvin Harvey Hansen, William Leonard Crum, Edward Chamberlin, Arthur Eli Monroe - Economics - 1915 - 984 pages
...which is not always true of medians. They cannot be made to give apparently inconsistent results like arithmetic means. When published as sums of money,...convenient. When weighted on a sound system, they cannot be unduly distorted by a very great advance in the price of a few articles, and yet, unlike... | |
 | Charles Franklin Dunbar, Frank William Taussig, Abbott Payson Usher, Alvin Harvey Hansen, William Leonard Crum, Edward Chamberlin, Arthur Eli Monroe - Economics - 1916 - 934 pages
...which is not always true of medians. They cannot be made to give apparently inconsistent results like arithmetic means. When published as sums of money,...convenient. When weighted on a sound system, they cannot be unduly distorted by a very great advance in the price of a few articles, and yet, unlike... | |
 | 1921 - 364 pages
...give apparently inconsistent results like_ arithmetic means. When published as sums of money, tney~can be added, subtracted, multiplied, divided, or averaged in any way that is convenient. When comprehensive in scope and weighted on tor_tedjw_a milike medians, " The legitimacy of shifting these... | |
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They can not be made to give apparently inconsistent results like arithmetic means. When published as sums of money, they can be added, subtracted, multiplied, divided, or averaged in any way that is convenient. When weighted on a sound system, they... 