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Question 60
Appeared in Year: 2013
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Essay▾Discuss simple aggregate method of Index number. Why is weighted average of price relative index preferred over simple aggregate method? Show that weighted average of price relative index number is same as that of Paasche՚s index number.
Explanation
Simple aggregate method of Index number:
This method consists of expressing aggregate of prices in any year as a percentage of their aggregate ith the base year. The price index, under this method is computed by the formula
Where
= Price index of the current year with reference to the base year
= Total of the prices of the current year
= Total of the…
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Question 61
Appeared in Year: 2012
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Essay▾Obtain the correlogram for the series with , provided , , and successive values of are independent .
Explanation
It is given that
And hence
Substituting the value in we get,
Where ηs are independent.
Multiplying both sides of the above equation by , taking expectations and dividing by , we get for a long series,
… (i)
Which is a (homogeneous) linear difference equation of order 2 in the trial solution gives
is the general solution of (i) , A and B being arbit…
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Question 62
Appeared in Year: 2012
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Short Answer▾Discuss Engel ′ s law and Engel ′ s curve. Explain Engel ′ s curve for constant price.
Question 63
Appeared in Year: 2012
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Essay▾Discuss the allocation of a sample to different strata in stratified sampling. Explain proportional allocation and hence obtain the variance of mean of a stratified sample under proportional allocation.
Explanation
For a population consisting of N sampling units it can be divided into k relatively homogeneous sub-groups of sizes , , … , (called as strata) such that N = .
Then a simple random sample of size (i = 1,2, … , k) is drawn from each of the stratum such that n = , and this sample is the stratified random sample of size n .
Allocation of a sample to d…
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Question 64
Appeared in Year: 2012
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Short Answer▾Show that for a simple random sample unbiased estimate of
Question 65
Appeared in Year: 2012
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Short Answer▾If the demand curve is of the form , where p is the price and x is the demand, prove that the elasticity of demand is · Hence deduce the elasticity of demand for