Data Envelopment Analysis

Andreas Behr
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Andreas Behr: University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics

Chapter 6 in Production and Efficiency Analysis with R, 2015, pp 135-159 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Data envelopment analysis is a very popular method to obtain efficiency scores for firms. Its charm is its simplicity. The firms under analysis are compared to the most efficient firm, which most often is a synthetic firm obtained as a linear combination of reference firms. The method is nonparametric as no assumptions on functional relations between inputs and outputs have to be made.

Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis; Efficiency Scores; Decision-making Unit (DMU); Linear Programming Results; Hypothetical Firms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20502-1_6

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