How to generate regularly behaved production data? A Monte Carlo experimentation on DEA scale efficiency measurement

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2008.11.013zbMath1176.90310OpenAlexW2063022197MaRDI QIDQ1042139

Sergio Perelman, Daniel Santín

Publication date: 7 December 2009

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2008.11.013

zbMATH Keywords

DEAtechnical efficiencyMonte Carlo experimentsscale efficiencyparametric distance function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50)

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