Sentence examples for index to calculate from inspiring English sources

We've used The Economist's Big Mac index to calculate how many Big Macs can be purchased in an hour on the minimum wage in various countries*.

The National Weather Service uses a heat index to calculate the temperature the body feels when heat and humidity are combined.

We can use this index to calculate an implied national popular vote, just as we did with the simpler method before.

The administration's offer in the fiscal cliff talks — and the approach long advocated by Republicans — calls for using a new measure of inflation, called the "chained" Consumer Price Index, to calculate the COLA.

We are using satellite readings called the Normalized Differen[ce] Vegetation Index to calculate the level of greenness and how much foliage is available in an area.

In 2004, the United Nations Development Programme UNDPP) developed a disaster risk index to calculate the multiple risks of mortality due to earthquakes, cyclones, floods, and droughts.

First, we used transthoracic echocardiographic indices to calculate PAP.

Based on the membership functions with the evaluation levels, the membership matrix R can be composed by using index data to calculate the index membership values.

I asked GoFigureNow, an actuarial and educational service that helps sales representatives calculate historical returns on index annuities, to calculate the return on an index annuity with an 8percentt cap, a participation rate of 100percentt and no spread.

Part of the issue stems from the fact that Wii Fit uses the body mass index (BMI) to calculate a person's level of fitness.

The US Environmental Protection Agency developed the Air Quality Index scale to calculate PM 2.5 readings — anything on the AQI scale between 301-500 is labeled "hazardous".