Bias and precision in the DEA two-stage method

Applied Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 2305-2311

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PRECISION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 51249107093     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840600949470     Document Type: Article

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