Cross-entropy estimation in technical efficiency analysis

DOI10.1016/j.jmateco.2014.01.015zbMath1308.91098OpenAlexW2073210545MaRDI QIDQ462867

Pedro Macedo, Manuel G. Scotto

Publication date: 22 October 2014

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmateco.2014.01.015

zbMATH Keywords

technical efficiencygeneralized cross-entropy estimatorstate-contingent approach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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Minimax regret priors for efficiency estimation, Multi-criteria decision-making method based on a cross-entropy with interval neutrosophic sets

Uses Software

• frontier

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