INTRODUCTION Efficiency analysis is necessary in order to avoid waste of materials, energy, effort, money, and time during scientific research. Therefore, analyzing efficiency of knowledge production in health areas is necessary, especially for developing and in-transition countries. As the first step in this field, the aim of this study was the analysis of selected health research center effic...

One of the most serious principles in production theory in economic is the principle of "efficiency". Simply put, efficiency can be defined as the demand that the desired goals (outputs) are achieved with the minimum use of the available resources (inputs). In order to, distinguish the relative efficiency of organizational units with multiple inputs to produce multiple outputs, "Data Envelopmen...

in the use of peer group data to assess individual, typical or best practice performance, the effective detection of outliers is critical for achieving useful results. in these ‘‘deterministic’’ frontier models, statistical theory is now mostly available. this paper deals with the statistical pared sample method and its capability of detecting outliers in data envelopment analysis. in the prese...