Efficiency Analysis by Production Frontiers: The Nonparametric Approach

Measuring productive efficiency for nonprofit organizations has posed a great challenge to applied researchers today. The problem has many facets and diverse implications for a number of disciplines such as economics, applied statistics, management science and information theory. This monograph discusses four major areas, which emphasize the applied economic and econometric as. pects of the production frontier analysis: A. Shastic frontier theory, B. Data envelopment analysis, C. Clustering...