Stochastic frontier analysis
An estimate of the underreporting of violent crimes against property applying stochastic frontier analysis to the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil
... The aim of this study was to determine the level of underreporting of violent crimes against property in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, using stochastic frontier analysis. Failure to report a ...
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A work project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics from NOVA School of Business and Economics BENCHMARKING IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE: AN APPLICATION OF THE STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS AND THE GRADES OF MEMBE
... using stochastic frontier analysis as the chosen econometric technique, and at (2) establishing benchmarks (in the form of specific goals regarding performance) for them to follow, through the grades ...
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EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF MAINTENANCE AND OUTAGE REPAIR IN ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION
... For several years electricity distribution companies have been using efficiency and productivity analysis in the form of data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis [r] ...
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Resources, innovation and performance in labor courts in Brazil
... Envelopment Analysis and stochastic frontier ...The stochastic model shows that court size and investment in the training of personnel are key factors for explaining the variation in the ...
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Productivity of nations: a stochastic frontier approach to TFP decomposition
... using stochastic frontier analysis ...production frontier for a sample of 75 countries over a long period (1950-2000) taking advantage of the model offered by Battese & Coelli ...growth, ...
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Repositório Institucional UFC: Latin America: Total factor productivity and its components
... Stochastic-frontier analysis originated in articles by Aigner, Lovell and Schmidt (1977) and Meeusen and Broeck (1977), which were followed by the work of Battese and Corra ...the stochastic ...
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Minority Serving College and University Cost Efficiencies
... To estimate the cost efficiency or inefficiency of minority serving colleges and universities the study employs stochastic frontier analysis using institutional panel data. The data take in a total ...
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Prod. vol.23 número3
... Envelopment Analysis) and SFA (Stochastic Frontier Analysis), the two dominant approaches to modern benchmarking (BOGETOFT; OTTO, ...slack analysis of DEA provides insight for ...
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Efficiency and integration in European banking markets
... both Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) estimates and comparing the results obtained for a panel comprising the “old” EU-15 countries (Austria, Belgium, ...
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UNIVERSIDADE DE BRASÍLIA FACULDADE DE ECONOMIA, ADMINISTRAÇÃO E CONTABILIDADE DEPARTAMENTO DE ECONOMIA MESTRADO EM ECONOMIA DO SETOR PÚBLICO MÁRIO ROBERTO MELO SILVA
... It is estimated the production stochastic frontier function using data from 4.814 Brazilian municipalities. The aim is analyze the local labor market efficiency, taking the municipalities as a decision ...
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Pesqui. Oper. vol.28 número3
... DEA frontier, herein named uniform DEA frontier or maximum efficiency frontier, will be located at lower levels than those of the DEA classic model ...uniform frontier in which inefficient ...
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Analysis of Stochastic Gilpin-Ayala Model in Polluted Environments
... Abstract—In this paper, we consider a stochastic Gilpin-Ayala model in polluted environments. Firstly, sufficient conditions for extinction, non-persistence in the mean, weak persistence and stochastic ...
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Numerical solutions of stochastic Lotka-Volterra equations via operational matrices
... as stochastic mode exist. Typically, stochastic phrases are added into the system with assuming that external or internal forces acting on the species have the random ...of stochastic Lotka-Volterra ...
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Applications of Fourier methods to the analysis of some stochastic processes
... parameter stochastic process which admits a random Schauder series representation, having as coefficients, pseudogaussian random variables of the type previously ...
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Lat. Am. j. solids struct. vol.11 número5
... a stochastic nature. A few computational schemes of stochastic homogenisation have been introduced in recent years based on perturbation (Koishi et ...a stochastic finite element perturbation-based ...
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Analysis of efficiency of the regulated transportation coach operator by stochastic frontier of Cobb-Douglas and translog functions : the case of the interstate passenger coach transportation in Brazil
... Other relevant aspect is the possibility of multiple productions in transportation, in a way that the combination of productive factors generates not only one product, but several different products. In the case of ...
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Analysis of stochastic strategies in bacterial competence: a master equation approach.
... the stochastic behavior of the dynamics of the competence regulatory circuit taking into account the internal noise in the environment of the cell without having a direct control on the magnitude of the noise ...
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Exponential Stability Analysis for Neutral Stochastic Systems with Distributed Delays
... stability analysis problem for a class of grey neutral stochastic systems with distributed ...neutral stochastic systems has not been intensively studied except some papers, which motives our ...some ...
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Ground motion simulation for dynamic structural analysis: pros and cons
... structural analysis is already ...finite-fault stochastic method was developed for ground motion simulation and implemented in the program together with an equivalent linear model that accounts for ...
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Braz. j. oceanogr. vol.57 número3
... VPA analysis shows that ...cohort analysis and the Thompson and Bell model of length composition, it was found that these stocks are overexploited, and concerning the two snappers species studied here, they ...
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