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A hedonic model for Internet access service in the Consumer Price Index
Brendan Williams
Economist,Transportation and Household Commodities Section, Office of Prices and Living Conditions, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
E-mail: williams.brendan@bls.gov
A hedonic model is presented for use in making direct quality adjustments to prices for Internet access service collected for the Consumer Price Index; the Box-Cox methodology for functional form selection improves the specification of the model.
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