The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficiency indices for 60 Brazilian electricity distribution utilities. These scores are obtained by DEA Data Envelopment Analysis and Bayesian Stochastic Frontier Analysis models, two techniques that can reduce the information asymmetry and improve the regulator’s skill to compare the performance of the utilities, a fundamental aspect in incentive r...

Dear DEA [2] Description: This series of five clinical vignettes focuses on common concerns of clinicians and illustrates the relationship between the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and health professionals, noting that the DEA can help explain federal regulations on legally prescribing controlled substances to patients. Authors: Heit HA, Covington E, Good PM. Source: Pain Medicine field...

The purpose of this paper is to study proposals to use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as a tool for Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM). We ®rst recall, using a simple model, the equivalence between the concept of `ef®ciency' in DEA and that of `convex ef®ciency' in MCDM. Examples are then used to show that various techniques that have been proposed in the DEA literature to deal with MCDM...

This paper is drawn from the use of data envelopment analysis (DEA) in helping a Portuguese bank to manage the performance of its branches. The bank wanted to set targets for the branches on such variables as growth in number of clients, growth in funds deposited and so on. Such variables can take positive and negative values but apart from some exceptions, traditional DEA models have hitherto ...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a non-parametric method for evaluating the relative efficiency of decision making units (DMUs) on the basis of multiple inputs and outputs. The context-dependent DEA is introduced to measure the relative attractiveness of a particular DMU when compared to others. In real-world situation, because of incomplete or non-obtainable information, the data (Input and ...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is traditionally based on the axiom of convex production possibility sets. In many research situations this axiom is considered overly restrictive, and recent research has focused on finding suitable ways of relaxing it. Unfortunately, there currently is no consensus in the DEA field on why and how to account for non-convexities. This paper explores empirical evi...

Evaluasi kinerja program studi merupakan kegiatan yang perlu dilakukan untuk terus meningkatkan kualitas pendidikan ada di dalamnya. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengevaluasi Fakultas Teknik Universitas Bhayangkara Surabaya dengan menggunakan metode Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). DEA pendekatan non parametrik berbasis linear programming efisiensi dari suatu unit kerja atau Decision Making Unit (D...