Measurement error, education production and data envelopment analysis

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 327-333

  Ruggiero, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Educational production

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; ERROR ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745016881     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2005.03.003     Document Type: Article

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