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Re: st: Re: Transforming Inflation


From   Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Re: Transforming Inflation
Date   Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:50:42 -0400

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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