Measuring technical efficiency of potato production in Iran using robust data envelopment analysis

A non-parametric method of data envelopment analysis (DEA) was applied to analyze the technical and scale efficiency of potato production in 23 Iranian provinces. In many real applications, inputs and outputs may be imprecise. In the present study, a robust DEA (RDEA) optimization framework was used...

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Main Authors: Mostafa Mardani, Mashallah Salarpour
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-05-01
Series:Information Processing in Agriculture
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214317315000128