Kuosmanen, Timo; Johnson, Andrew L - 2018
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a nonparametric mathematical programming approach to productive efficiency analysis …, envelops all observed data. In this paper we show that DEA can be interpreted as nonparametric least squares regression subject … constrained special case of DEA. Applying these insights, we present a nonparametric variant of the corrected ordinary least …