CFM 3.2

Alfred Cowles & Associates, Common-Stock Indexes, 2nd ed., Principia Press, Inc., 1939 [15,804 kb] [Table of Contents]

Preliminary Pages [i-xii]
Chapter
1	The Importance of Common Stocks [1]
2	Cowles Commission Indexes [2]
3	Period Covered [4]
4	Data Employed [5]
5	Selection of the Index-Number Formulas [11]
6	Construction of the Stock Price Indexes [17]
7	The Standard Statistics Company Formula [25]
8	Fisher’s “Ideal” Formula [30]
9	Criticisms of Well-Known Indexes [33]
10	Some Important Facts Disclosed by the Indexes [40]
Charts [51]
Indexes
1	Series P — Stock Prices [65]
2	Series C — Stock Prices including Cash Dividends [167]
3	Series Y — Yield Expectations [269]
4	Series Y_a — Yields [371]
5	Series D_a — Dividend Payments [387]
6	Series R — Earnings-Price Ratios [403]
7	Series E — Earnings [419]
Appendixes
1	United States and Foreign Common-Stock Indexes [437]
2	Common Stocks Included in Cowles Commission Indexes [454]
3	Series P_Ea — Prices of Stocks for which Earnings Data Are Available [476]
4	Series Y_Ea — Yields of Stocks for which Earnings Data Are Available [484]
5	Index of Bond Interest [492]
General Index to Introduction and Appendix I [495]