The purposed-the main purpose of this study is to look at the development of efficiency and productivity in the military hospital sector of Tehran province, by applying a nonparametric method. Design/methodology/approach- The study applied the nonparametric method to assess the efficiency of military hospitals service in Iran, Tehran, over the period 2013-2016. Utilizing non-parametric me...

This paper aims to assess the environmental efficiency of refineries in the public sector with emphasis on generated effluents and water consumption in the production process. In order to conduct this research, the addressed method was quantitative with a qualitative approach to the environmental aspects of controllable and uncontrollable variables imp...

Abstract We introduce methods to apply stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) financial assets as an alternative data envelopment analysis, because SFA allows us fit a with noisy data. In contrast conventional SFA, we wish deal estimation risk, heteroscedasticity in noise and inefficiency terms. investigate measurement error the risk return measures using simulation–extrapolation method develop res...

Most, if not all, production technologies are stochastic. This article demonstrates how data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods can be adapted to accommodate stochastic elements in a state-contingent setting. Specifically, we show how observations on a random input, not under the control of the producer and not known at the time that variable input decisions are made, can be used to partition t...

We propose a likelihood-based approach to Stochastic Non-Parametric Envelopment of Data (StoNED) estimator using directional distance function with firm-specific vectors. Additionally, we show how estimate inefficiency estimates instead focusing on their average only. Moreover, models that are robust misspecification in general and the use unit-information-priors this class models. These priors...