data envelopment analysis (dea) measures the relative efficiency of decision making units (dmus) with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. dea-based malmquist productivity index measures the productivity change over time. we propose a dynamic dea model involving network structure in each period within the framework a dea. we have previously published the network dea (ndea) and the dynamic dea ...

background hospitals are the most costly operational and really important units of health system because they consume about 50%-89% of total health resources. therefore efficient use of resources could help in saving and reallocating the financial and physical resources. objectives the aim of this study was to obtain an overview of hospitals' performance status by applying different techniques,...

BACKGROUND This study is an initial effort to examine the dynamics of efficiency and productivity in Greek public hospitals during the first phase of the crisis 2009-2012. Data were collected by the Ministry of Health after several quality controls ensuring comparability and validity of hospital inputs and outputs. Productivity is estimated using the Malmquist Indicator, decomposing the estimat...

   The performance of a decision making unit (DMU) can be evaluated in either across-sectional or a time-series manner, and data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a useful method for both types of evaluation. The Malmquist productivity index (MPI) evaluates the change in efficiency of a DMU between two time periods. It is defined as the product of the Catch-up and Frontier-shift terms. In this pape...

We have obtained I band Tully-Fisher (TF) measurements for 522 late-type galaxies in the fields of 52 rich Abell clusters distributed throughout the sky between ∼50 and 200h Mpc. Here we estimate corrections to the data for various forms of observational bias, most notably Malmquist and cluster population incompleteness bias. The bias-corrected data are applied to the construction of an I band ...

‎in this paper‎, ‎we give some necessary conditions for a complex‎ ‎difference equation of malmquist type‎ $$‎sum^n_{j=1}f(z+c_j)=frac{p(f(z))}{q(f(z))}‎,$$ ‎where $n(in{mathbb{n}})geq{2}$‎, ‎and $p(f(z))$ and $q(f(z))$ are‎ ‎relatively prime polynomials in $f(z)$ with small functions as‎ ‎coefficients‎, ‎admitting a meromorphic function of finite order‎. ‎moreover‎, ‎the properties of finite o...

We consider problems related to the generalization of the classical Fourier basis to a basis of rational functions with prescribed poles outside the unit disk. We give some generalizations about the convergence and estimation of the Fourier coefficients with respect to this generalized basis. We also consider a rational generalization of the classical Toeplitz matrices and consider the asymptot...