Technical efficiency of the Brazilian municipalities: Correcting nonparametric frontier measurements for outliers

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 157-181

  Sampaio De Sousa, Maria Da Conceição ^a   Stošić, Borko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Leverage; Outlier detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 26044470496     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-005-4702-4     Document Type: Article

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