restricting errors to be above the cost frontier, the stochastic frontier method, and data envelopment analysis (DEA). The data … two output firms. The DEA estimator was most robust in estimating the "true" cost frontier and associated economic …

, and determinants of the technical inefficiency of hospitals. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) and DEA- based Malmquist … hospitals. Tobit model used to examine the determinants of the technical inefficiency of hospitals. The DEA Variable Returns to …This study examines the relative technical efficiency of 12 hospitals in Eastern Ethiopia. Using six-year-round panel …

Portuguese hospitals: Clinical Pathology, Medical Imaging and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Our objective in carrying out … implications and can be related to the ongoing discussion of where and how should hospitals provide these services. …