The impact of non-discretionary factors on DEA and SFA technical efficiency differences

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 981-989

  Kontodimopoulos, Nick ^a   Papathanasiou, Nikolaos D ^b   Flokou, Angeliki ^a   Tountas, Yannis ^a,b   Niakas, Dimitris ^a  

^a HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Operating environment; Stochastic frontier analysis; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; GREECE; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEALTH FACILITY ENVIRONMENT; RENAL DIALYSIS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84856214668     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-010-9521-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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