Statistical inference for DEA estimators of directional distances

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2012.02.030zbMath1253.90176MaRDI QIDQ1926810

Léopold Simar, Anne Vanhems, Paul W. Wilson

Publication date: 29 December 2012

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

Full work available at URL: http://publications.ut-capitole.fr/15211/1/statistical.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

bootstrap; productivity; efficiency; data envelopment analysis; non-parametric frontier estimation; directional distances

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G05: Nonparametric estimation

62G09: Nonparametric statistical resampling methods

90C08: Special problems of linear programming (transportation, multi-index, data envelopment analysis, etc.)

91B38: Production theory, theory of the firm

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Uses Software

• LAPACK
• bootstrap

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