A Comparative Application of Data Envelopment Analysis and Translog Methods: An Illustrative Study of Hospital Production

DOI10.1287/MNSC.32.1.30zbMath0588.62200OpenAlexW2127834332MaRDI QIDQ3716193

Rajiv D. Banker, Robert F. Conrad, Robert P. Strauss

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.32.1.30

zbMATH Keywords

data envelopment analysisefficiency evaluationproduction functionstranslog cost functionhospital costproduction correspondences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20)

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