Data envelopment analysis as nonparametric least-squares regression

Operations Research

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 149-160

  Kuosmanen, Timo ^a,b   Johnson, Andrew L ^c  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^c Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Frontier estimation; Mathematical programming; Nonparametric estimation; Performance measurement

Indexed keywords

AXIOMATIC APPROACH; EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS; FRONTIER ESTIMATION; LEAST SQUARE; LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; NON-PARAMETRIC; NON-PARAMETRIC ESTIMATIONS; NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION; PARAMETRIC PROGRAMMING; PRODUCTION FUNCTION; SHAPE CONSTRAINTS; SIGN CONSTRAINTS;

BENCHMARKING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DATA HANDLING; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 75949090473     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1090.0722     Document Type: Article

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