How to improve the performances of DEA/FDH estimators in the presence of noise?

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 183-201

  Simar, Léopold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Frontier; Nonparametric estimation; Robustness to outliers; Stochastic DEA FDH

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848912647     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-007-0057-3     Document Type: Article

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