Probabilistic measures of efficiency and the influence of contextual variables in nonparametric production models: an application to agricultural research in Brazil

DOI10.1111/J.1475-3995.2009.00734.XMaRDI QIDQ3566449zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eliane Gonçalves Gomes, Roberta B. Staub, Geraldo da Silva e Souza

Publication date 8 June 2010

Published in International Transactions in Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-3995.2009.00734.x

zbMATH Keywords

free disposal hull (FDH)contextual variablestwo-stage inferenceagricultural research

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Resource and cost allocation (including fair division, apportionment, etc.) (91B32) Environmental economics (natural resource models, harvesting, pollution, etc.) (91B76) Production models (90B30)

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