Section I: Methods -- Chapter 1 Evaluation of Performance in Health Care -- Chapter 2 Performance Measurement Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) -- Chapter 3 Returns To Scale Models -- Chapter 4 Weight Restricted (Multiplier) Models -- Chapter 5 Non-Oriented and Measure Specific Models --...

Chapter 1. Estimating Efficiency in the Presence of Extreme Outliers: A Logistic-Half Normal Stochastic Frontier Model with Application to Highway Maintenance Costs in England -- Chapter 2. Alternative User Costs, Productivity and Inequality in US Business Sectors -- Chapter 3. On the Allocation...

This book provides a coherent description of the main concepts and statistical methods used to analyse economic performance. The focus is on measures of performance that are of practical relevance to policy makers. Most, if not all, of these measures can be viewed as measures of productivity...

Einführung -- Zunehmender Effizienzdruck im Marketing - Doing more with less -- Konzeptionelle und theoretische Grundlagen der Effizienzanalyse -- Begrifflich-konzeptionelle Grundlagen der Effizienzanalyse -- Allgemeine theoretische Fundierung der Effizienzanalyse -- Konzeptualisierung der...

This handbook represents a milestone in the progression of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Written by experts who are often major contributors to DEA theory, it includes a collection of chapters that represent the current state-of-the-art in DEA research. Topics include distance functions and...

Empiriegeprägte Aktivitätsanalyse: Die DEA -- Bedeutung der Skalenvariablen bei Aktivitätsänderungen in der DEA -- Kreuzbewertung zur Aktivitätsplanung -- Anwendung ausgewählter Konzepte: Eine Theateranalyse.

This book presents the underlying theory, model development, and applications of network Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in a systematic way. The field of network DEA extends and complements conventional DEA by considering not only inputs and outputs when measuring system efficiency, but also...

This book is intended to present the milestones in the progression of uncertain Data envelopment analysis (DEA). Chapter 1 gives some basic introduction to uncertain theories, including probability theory, credibility theory, uncertainty theory and chance theory. Chapter 2 presents a...

Managing Service Productivity using Data Envelopment Analysis -- Development of Assessment Model for Research Efficiency of Universities -- Incorporating intra- and inter-input/output weight restrictions in piece-wise linear DEA: an application to the assessment of the research activity in...

Ausgewählte DEA-Modelle: CCR-Modell und BCC-Modell -- Stochastische Effizienzkonzepte -- Entwicklung einer stochastischen Dienstleistungsaktivität -- DEA-Technologiemengen für stochastische Produktionen -- Chance-Constrained Technologiemenge.