Another Approach to Data Envelopment Analysis in Noisy Environments: DEA+

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 161-176

  Gstach, Dieter ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Consistency; Maximum Likelihood Estimation; Semi Parametric Frontier Estimation; Stochastic DEA

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032371105     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018312801700     Document Type: Article

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