Barnett, William; Choi, Ki-Hong - Department of Economics, University of Kansas - 2006
We provide an operational identification of the complete class of superlative index numbers to track the exact … in a formal manner that we define, we prove the index to be in the superlative index number class of nonparametric … first time that a particular family of nonparametric functions, including the Sato-Vartia index, is within the superlative …