. For representation of efficiency and the determinants, this paper uses both the data envelopment analysis (DEA) and the … stochastic frontier approach (SFA) with variable returns to scale on Myanmar rice production. The efficiency of the rice … through efficiency analysis, especially, to examine the impact of farm mechanization on Myanmar rice production efficiency …

The aim of this paper is to assess the efficiency of a set of 62 precious metal mutual funds (PMMFs) and to explain … performance differences between funds using weighted additive data envelopment analysis (DEA) and Tobit regression, respectively …

estimates. A very simple example is given to illustrate the statistical issues underlying nonparametric efficiency measurement …

well as smoothing of the DEA frontier estimate. Both bootstrap procedures allow for dependence of the inefficiency process …Non-parametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) estimators based on linear programming methods have been widely applied … in analyses of productive efficiency. The distributions of these estimators remain unknown except in the simple case of …