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This paper discusses the feasibility of bootstrapping DEA scores in the context of the earlier paper by Ferrier and Hirschberg (1997). A simple experiment is devised to demonstrate that in the one-input, one-output case the bootstrap of the non-modified DEA scores is not a failure of the bootstrap.
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Ferrier, G.D., Hirschberg, J.G. Can We Bootstrap DEA Scores?. Journal of Productivity Analysis 11, 81–92 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007787406099
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007787406099