def _build_arguments(keyword_args):
    """
    Builds a dictionary of function arguments appropriate to the index to be computed.

    :param dict keyword_args:
    :return: dictionary of arguments keyed with names expected by the corresponding
        index computation function
    """

    function_arguments = {
        "data_start_year": keyword_args["data_start_year"],
        "scale": keyword_args["scale"],
        "distribution": keyword_args["distribution"],
        "calibration_year_initial": keyword_args["calibration_start_year"],
        "calibration_year_final": keyword_args["calibration_end_year"],
        "periodicity": keyword_args["periodicity"],
    }

    return function_arguments