The index case or patient zero is the first documented patient in a disease epidemic within a population, or the first documented patient included in an...

work by economists Karl Case and Robert Shiller, whose team calculated the home price index back to 1990. Case and Shiller's index is normalized to a value...

Case mix index (CMI) within health care and medicine, is a relative value assigned to a diagnosis-related group of patients in a medical care environment...

store the upper-case versions of the last_name field in the index. Another option sometimes supported is the use of partial index, where index entries are...

market price to its valuation formula. In the case of VIX, the option prices used are the S&P 500 index option prices. The VIX takes as inputs the market...

allowing dynamic content to be used as the index page (e.g. index.cgi, index.pl, index.php, index.shtml, index.jsp, default.asp) even though it may be more...

the 1976 epidemic in Zaïre. She has been incorrectly identified as the index case by several sources, but a World Health Organization commission report...

The Democracy Index published by the Economist Group is an index measuring the quality of democracy across the world. This quantitative and comparative...

The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is an index that scores and ranks countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, as assessed...

is identified as having a communicable disease (often called the index case). This case may be reported to public health or managed by the primary health...