Influential observations in frontier models, a robust non-oriented approach to the water sector

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 377-392

  De Witte, Kristof ^a,b   Marques, Rui C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Frontier; Non oriented; Nonparametric estimation; Outliers; Water sector

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649798061     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-010-0754-6     Document Type: Article

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