body mass index

The ponderal index.

An anthropometric statistic that combines the height and weight of an individual, similar to the body mass index.

(databases) a type of database index that contains a series of sorted pointers pointing to the physical data rows, which are organized either in a heap or in the sort order specified by a clustered index, on the disk

A measure of the reward that can be achieved through a given stochastic process with certain properties.

(economics) A measure of the size of firms in relation to the industries they operate in, serving to indicate the amount of competition among them.

(medicine) The level of suspicion that a disease or condition is the underlying diagnosis based on the available findings in a patient.

An author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and the citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar, based on a set of most cited papers and the number of citations in other publications.

plural of index fund

(finance) A fund that tracks a specific basket of underlying investments.