Data envelopment analysis with heterogeneous data: An application

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 676-686

  Sengupta, J K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost frontier; Heteroscedasticity; Minimum efficient scale; Size variations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

COST FRONTIER; HETEROSCEDASTICITY; MINIMUM EFFICIENT SCALE; SIZE VARIATIONS;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 18944397039     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601861     Document Type: Article

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