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Re:Public Comment on Inflation Measurement by cecilpl2 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:44PM (#28464425)
Here's a detailed example (with math!) of the CPI Hedonic Quality Adjustment for TVs.

I found it by googling "CPI quality adjustment".

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/questions-and-ans...

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Re:Public Comment on Inflation Measurement by klipklop on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:56PM (#28464520)
"Hedonic regression model" sounds fancy and all, but look at their charts just filled with arbitrary numbers accessing various features. Funny to see how they weighted various, now failed, technologies/features.
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