SEMIPARAMETRIC STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS OF SPECIALIST SURGEON CLINICS
Steven Koch and
Jean Slabbert (jean.slabbert@bafokeng.com)
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Jean Slabbert: Department of Economics, University of Pretoria
No 201020, Working Papers from University of Pretoria, Department of Economics
Abstract:
A purposive sample of South African specialist surgeons was used to nonparametrically estimate production relations for single ouptut and multiple output production processes. The analysis was further extended to incorporate parametric assumptions associated with stochastic frontier analysis to provide estimates of technical efficiency within surgical practices. The results point to high levels of inefficiency, as well as consistency between single output and multiple output models.
Keywords: Local-linear; Cross-validation; Semiparametric; Stochastic Frontier Analysis. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2010-09
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