A Simulation Study of Joint Uses of Data Envelopment Analysis and Statistical Regressions for Production Function Estimation and Efficiency Evaluation

The use of goal programming, regression

The use of goal programming, regression analysis and data envelopment analysis for estimating efficient marginal costs of hospital services

✍ D. Giokas 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 121 KB

## Abstract This paper presents a new composite methodology for estimating efficient marginal costs of outputs. The methodology is based on multi‐criteria methods involving Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Goal Programming (GP) and Regression Analysis (RA) techniques. Firstly, DEA is used to find a