Do efficiency scores depend on input mix? A statistical test and empirical illustration

DOI10.1007/S10479-013-1438-9MaRDI QIDQ2449342zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mette Asmild, Jens Leth Hougaard, Dorte Kronborg

Publication date 8 May 2014

Published in Annals of Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://okonomi.foi.dk/workingpapers/MSAPpdf/MSAP2012/MSAP_WP05_2012.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

rankingdata envelopment analysis (DEA)Kruskal-Wallis testhomogeneous efficienciesmix independence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Production models (90B30)

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