A Bayesian approach to statistical inference in stochastic DEA

Omega

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 309-314

  Tsionas, Efthymios G ^a   Papadakis, Emmanuel N ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Efficiency measurement; Statistical inference; Stochastic DEA

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; SAMPLING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN APPROACHES; BAYESIAN METHODS; EFFICIENCY MEASURE; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENTS OF; NONPARAMETRICS; PARAMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; STOCHASTIC DEA; STOCHASTICS;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 77953683242     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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