Estimating the efficiency of general practitioners controlling for case mix and outlier effects

Empirical Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 321-342

  Staat, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; DEA; General practitioners; Malmquist index; Outlier detection

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 79952741050     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-009-0335-1     Document Type: Article

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