FEAR: A software package for frontier efficiency analysis with R

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 247-254

  Wilson, Paul W ^a  

^a Bowling Green State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; DEA; Efficiency; Non parametric; Software

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; BOOTSTRAPPING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MODELING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 51249084996     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2007.02.001     Document Type: Article

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