(finance) A mutual fund that closely resembles an index fund, while charging higher fees for active management.

(finance) Of financial products such as bonds, savings accounts, pension schemes, etc., yielding returns that are calculated based on the level of a referenced financial index, such as a consumer price index, typically to keep pace with inflation.

(audiology) a tool used to predict the amount of speech that is audible to a patient with a specific hearing loss

(pharmacology) The ratio of the median toxic dose of a drug to its median effective dose, used to gauge the safety of a particular medication (a low therapeutic index indicates that the drug is easily overdosed).

plural of index register

(programming) A processor register (or an assigned memory location) used to point to operand addresses during the run of a program, useful for stepping through strings and arrays.

plural of ease of doing business index

A statistical measure of the weight of a person scaled according to height, used to estimate if a person is underweight or overweight. BMI units are defined as kg/m² ≈ 703*lb/in².

(economics) A statistical estimate of the level of prices of goods and services bought for consumption purposes by households.

A statistical measure that quantifies the robustness of a thermal process.