The pricelevels
-package provides index number methods
for price comparisons within or between countries. As price comparisons
over time usually rely on the same index number methods, the package has
been denoted more generally as pricelevels
, though its
primary focus is on spatial price comparisons. Currently, the following
index number methods (or price indices) are implemented.
jevons()
dutot()
carli()
harmonic()
bmw()
cswd()
uvalue()
banerjee()
davies()
lehr()
laspeyres()
and
geolaspeyres()
paasche()
and
geopaasche()
fisher()
toernqvist()
walsh()
and
geowalsh()
theil()
medgeworth()
palgrave()
svartia()
drobisch()
lowe()
young()
and
geoyoung()
cpd()
and
nlcpd()
geks()
gkhamis()
ikle()
rao()
rhajargasht()
gerardi()
Moreover, the package offers functions for sampling and characterizing price data. Details can be found in the package vignette.
The pricelevels
-functions are designed based on
R
’s data.table
-package.