Cross-entropy estimation in technical efficiency analysis

DOI10.1016/J.JMATECO.2014.01.015MaRDI QIDQ462867zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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

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

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