Technical efficiency bias in data envelopment analysis caused by intra-output aggregation

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 623-626

  Barnum, Darold T ^a   Gleason, John M ^b  

^a Department of Information and Decision Sciences   (United States)

^b Department of Information Systems and Technology   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; MODELING; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34547573585     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850500461647     Document Type: Article

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