Keyword: statistics: data envelopment analysis

Found 992 papers in total
The technical efficiency of vacuum-pan sugar industry of India: An application of a stochastic frontier production function using panel data
The technical efficiency of vacuum-pan sugar industry of India: An application of a stochastic frontier production function using panel data
1995,
A stochastic production frontier method is used to examine technical efficiency among...
DEA-based yardstick competition: The optimality of best practice regulation
DEA-based yardstick competition: The optimality of best practice regulation
1997,
In this paper, we introduce the notion of ‘best practice’ or...
Applications of DEA to measure the efficiency of software production at two large Canadian banks
Applications of DEA to measure the efficiency of software production at two large Canadian banks
1997,
This paper presents two empirical studies of software production conducted at two...
DEA and primary care physician report cards: Deriving preferred practice cones from managed care service concepts and operating strategies
DEA and primary care physician report cards: Deriving preferred practice cones from managed care service concepts and operating strategies
1997,
Evaluating the practice patterns of the newly dominant force in managed care, the...
Efficiency of families managing home health care
Efficiency of families managing home health care
1997,
Over the last decade, cost-containment pressures, health care reform debates, movement...
Evaluating physician efficiency in hospitals: A multivariate analysis of best practices
Evaluating physician efficiency in hospitals: A multivariate analysis of best practices
1995,
This paper reports on a six-month study of the clinical efficiency of 35 physicians in...
Estimating output substitutability of hospital services: A distance function approach
Estimating output substitutability of hospital services: A distance function approach
1995,
The purpose of this paper is to provide hospital specific estimates of the relative...
Exploring output quality targets in the provision of perinatal care in England using data envelopment analysis
Exploring output quality targets in the provision of perinatal care in England using data envelopment analysis
1995,
This paper explores the use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to assess units...
Regional concentration and efficiency in Mexican manufacturing
Regional concentration and efficiency in Mexican manufacturing
1995,
This paper explores the link between industrial location, concentration, and economic...
Cost efficiency in the US steel industry: A nonparametric analysis using data envelopment analysis
Cost efficiency in the US steel industry: A nonparametric analysis using data envelopment analysis
1995,
In this paper we use nonparametric methods to get upper and lower bounds on the levels...
On the relative efficiency of alternative modes of producing a public sector output: The case of the developmentally disabled
On the relative efficiency of alternative modes of producing a public sector output: The case of the developmentally disabled
1995,
This paper examines the relative efficiency of alternative methods of producing care...
A new measure of baseball batters using DEA
A new measure of baseball batters using DEA
1997,
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used to create an alternative to traditional...
Decomposing efficiency into its managerial and its regulatory components: The case of European railways
Decomposing efficiency into its managerial and its regulatory components: The case of European railways
1995,
The purpose of this paper is to decompose traditional measures of productive...
Dominant Competitive Factors for evaluating program efficiency in grouped data
Dominant Competitive Factors for evaluating program efficiency in grouped data
1997,
Dominant Competitive Factors, unique solutions to a new class of two-person ratio...
An internal customer service quality data envelopment analysis model for bank branches
An internal customer service quality data envelopment analysis model for bank branches
1997,
Over the last few years data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been gaining increasing...
Divestiture of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Divestiture of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
1996,
This article discusses whether the Japanese government should break up NTT (Nippon...
Measuring dynamic efficiency under risk aversion
Measuring dynamic efficiency under risk aversion
1994,
Problems of measuring the efficiency of decision-making units are discussed here in an...
The use of goal programming and data envelopment analysis for estimating efficient marginal costs of outputs
The use of goal programming and data envelopment analysis for estimating efficient marginal costs of outputs
1997,
The paper concerns the use of alternative and/or combined methodologies (Data...
Stochastic frontier production analysis: Measuring performance of public telecommunications in 24 OECD countries
Stochastic frontier production analysis: Measuring performance of public telecommunications in 24 OECD countries
1994,
This study presents a new use of least absolute value (LAV) estimation for obtaining...
Data envelopment analysis: Its use to assess efficiency of hospital preventive medicine services of Andalucia
Data envelopment analysis: Its use to assess efficiency of hospital preventive medicine services of Andalucia
1993,
BACKGROUND: The evaluation of hospital units' efficiency is a major concern of health...
Input efficiency profiling: An application to airlines
Input efficiency profiling: An application to airlines
1997,
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) can produce results which lack discrimination, one...
A graph efficiency multiproduct model of corn/livestock farming: Accounting for nitrate pollution
A graph efficiency multiproduct model of corn/livestock farming: Accounting for nitrate pollution
1996,
This paper estimates a non-parametric production frontier for a population of 117...
Evaluation of junior colleges of technology: The Taiwan case
Evaluation of junior colleges of technology: The Taiwan case
1994,
Junior colleges of technology (JCTs) in Taiwan are evaluated every three years by the...
Banking on efficiency
Banking on efficiency
1996,
Measuring performance of similar units within an organisation has been considered by a...
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