Sentence examples for diffusion indexes from inspiring English sources

Some economists also use sets of statistics called diffusion indexes to calculate economic turning points.

These are diffusion indexes, in which a reading of 50 indicates most employers are neither hiring nor firing.

This way, we can find out if real time diffusion indexes could have delivered good forecasts.

Our approach is essentially to recreate a series of forecasts based on diffusion indexes that we construct in real time.

Later he refined so-called diffusion indexes so that each of their disparate forecasting components could be seen in their own cyclical contexts, preventing distortions that would otherwise arise from comparing unlike factors.

One prominent research paper by Geoffrey Moore from 1950 showed that the historical diffusion indexes led the turns in the business cycle peaks by about eight months.

We used TBSS to analyze the diffusion indices including fractional anisotropy (FA), mean diffusivity (MD), axial diffusivity (AD), and radial diffusivity (RD).

Unsurprisingly, the idea of diffusion index is hardly new.

Does this mean that a diffusion index is not useful in predicting recessions?

The percentage of the people in the room saying yes is basically the diffusion index.

At least since the 1950s and 1960s, economists have studied the use of a diffusion index.