The phrase "a weighted index" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to statistics, finance, or data analysis where different elements are assigned varying levels of importance.
Example: "The report utilized a weighted index to better reflect the significance of each variable in the overall analysis."
Alternatives: "a weighted measure" or "a weighted scale".
In essence, they can be viewed as a weighted index based on multiple indicators where the weights correspond to the degree to which individual indicators reflect the underlying common construct.
The CCI is a weighted index based on 19 major disease categories each assigned with a weight (1, 2, 3, or 6).
The pillars are further refined into nine domains and a weighted index of 33 indicators.
Since 1990, a weighted index of hedge funds has returned around 12 percent annually — about four percentage points more than the returns for the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index — with just half the volatility, according to Hedge Fund Research.
For this purpose a weighted index of intra-firm diffusion is built to investigate empirically the drivers of the intensity of joint use of a set of complementary innovations.
he index is a weighted index of 41 variables, divided into quantitative, risk and qualitative categories.
We analyzed data for 1487 faculty members of UFG, including the total number of papers published between 2011 2013, a weighted-index of scientific production and the number of publications in high-ranked journals (according to a Brazilian system of journal ranking in different areas).
Thus, when compared to a market weighted index, the EWI will always have a greater exposure to smaller market cap stocks and less exposure to large cap stocks.
What's even worse is the Fed uses the core rate of PCE, which is a chained weighted index that excludes the things that Americans need to survive on a daily basis.
The graph on the front page of today's Financial Times shows its progress, slicing 10 points off a trade weighted index since January.
Jeremy Grantham of GMO, a fund-management group, has compiled an equally weighted index of 33 commodities.
