Indicators of ill-conditioned data sets and model misspecification in Data Envelopment Analysis: an extended facet approach
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Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) measures the relative efficiency of Decision Making Units through the use of mathematical programming. A study is conducted with the aim of developing indicators of ill-conditioned data sets and model misspecification in the DEA approach. More specifically, it strives to look for determinants of whether or not data support the specification of the input and output space, that is, if the variation in data is enough to estimate a frontier of the same dimension as the input/output space. It is found that the presence of well-defined marginal rates of substitution along the estimated strongly efficient frontier segments calls for the existence of Full Dimension Efficient Facets (FDEFs). A test for the presence of FDEFs is created and an operational two-stage methodology for evaluating efficiency is presented.
Publication Name: Management Science
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0025-1909
Year: 1996
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Chance constrained efficiency evaluation
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A model for efficiency evaluation founded on the theory of chance constrained programming is constructed. This model employs a piece-by-piece linear envelopment of confidence areas for observed stochastic multiple-input multiple-output mixtures in a mathematical programming approach, in the tradition of the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). An exogenous decomposition of the full variation in data for each Decision Making Unit (DMU) is allowed. The model can generate estimates of the sensitivity of efficiency scores to unknown levels of data noise by changing some probability levels. An economic interpretation of the suggested efficiency measure which is similar to the interpretation of the CCR-efficiency index is possible. The model is applied to research evaluations in economic departments at Danish Universities.
Publication Name: Management Science
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0025-1909
Year: 1995
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Simulating weights restrictions in data envelopment analysis by means of unobserved DMUs
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A study was conducted to characterize a method of obtaining and utilizing value judgments in data envelopment analysis (DEA), a technique for evaluating the comparative efficiencies of decision making units (DMU) that come in a range of scales of operation and weights restrictions. Based on the use of unobserved decision making units, the method promotes local, nonlinear marginal rates of substitution between inputs and outputs. Capturing value judgments in DEA using unobserved DMUs presents several benefits, including the creation of more than one unobserved DMU from a given real DMU, support for radial measure of efficiency and the ability to obtain more value judgments in DEA under variable returns to scale.
Publication Name: Management Science
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0025-1909
Year: 1998
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