Article ID: | iaor2007274 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 99 |
End Page Number: | 106 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2006 |
Journal: | Health Care Management Science |
Authors: | Hougaard Jens Leth, Overgaard Christian |
The present paper suggests extending the free-disposable-hull method, known from the efficiency measurement literature, to cover interval production data. Interval data represent a direct way to handle data uncertainty and problems with data comparability which seem particularly prevalent concerning health care applications. We illustrate the method using a simple 1-input–2-output model on health care data from the OECD health statistics.