This paper has two purposes. The first purpose is methodological and aims to extend previous work on efficiency analysis by implementing a multiple-output stochastic ray frontier production function model. This model generalizes the single-output stochastic frontier model to multiple-input, multiple
The market for efficiency analysis of health care organisations
β Scribed by Bruce Hollingsworth; Andrew Street
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 108 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1057-9230
- DOI
- 10.1002/hec.1169
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