Bootstrapping Confidence Intervals for Linear Programming Efficiency Scores: With an Illustration Using Italian Banking Data

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-33

  Ferrier, Gary D ^a   Hirschberg, Joseph G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Bootstrapped confidence intervals; DEA; Production frontiers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031533284     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007768229846     Document Type: Article

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