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Can We Bootstrap DEA Scores?

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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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  1. Department of Economics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701-1201, USA

    Gary D. Ferrier

  2. Department of Economics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3052, AUSTRALIA

    Joseph G. Hirschberg

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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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