Nonparametric efficiency estimation in stochastic environments

Operations Research

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 645-655

  Post, Thierry ^a   Cherchye, Laurens ^a   Kuosmanen, Timo ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PRODUCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENT FRONTIER ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL PRODUCTION FRONTIERS; NONPARAMETRIC EFFICIENCY ESTIMATION; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS;

MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0036656514     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.50.4.645.2854     Document Type: Article

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