Standard economic production theory is the basis for measuring technical efficiency in sports. Using programming or regression models, efficiency is defined as the distance of a given team observation from the technology. In this paper, we show that the standard measures of efficiency using deterministic models are biased downward due to serial correlation with respect to the efficiency measure...

A bad smell in Haskell code is an inefficiency or error that runs contrary to established good practice and coding conventions. This project centres on the development of a tool to detect bad smells commonly introduced into Haskell programs by 1 year Computer Science students. This paper outlines the motivations, and introduces the technical background and implementation of the tool along and d...

Pakistan is one of the world’s leading producers, exporters, and consumers rice. This study analyzes technical efficiency rice growing farmers in Swat district Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Pakistan. A three-stage sampling procedure was used to interview 204 growers through a well-structured pretested schedule. The maximum likelihood function results showed that chemicals, urea, diammonium phosph...

Intensive livestock systems differ from most pasture-based systems in that managers exert much greater control over the production cycle and the quality of animals entering the system. Consequently, technical inefficiencies among animals tend to be much more easily eradicated. Nevertheless, a range of factors could still cause both technical inefficiency and variations in productivity between a...

Constructed the empirical model for the study of the differences of the operational efficiency of furniture enterprises in Guangdong province, evaluated the technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency of these furniture enterprises with DEA and took pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency as variables for cluster analysis. According to the results, we divided fur...

One hears that the credit ranking score has increased technical efficiency in financial holding companies, when a data envelopment analysis (DEA) is employed. Our empirical results show that the credit ranking scores will obviously affect the estimated results of efficiency measurement in Taiwan’s financial holding companies. Additionally, the effects on technical inefficiency could be attribut...

Current literature on public hospital efficiency in Australia only reveals information how efficient hospitals are the short run. The presence of persistent technical inefficiency arising from long-term systemic problems and government-related regulatory constraints does not appear to have been addressed. Using aggregated panel data for period 2002–2018 eight Australian states territories, this...