A Bootstrap-Regression Procedure to Capture Unit Specific Effects in Data Envelopment Analysis

The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) efficiency score obtained for an individual firm is a point estimate without any confidence interval around it. In recent years, researchers have resorted to bootstrapping in order to generate empirical distributions of efficiency scores. This procedure assumes that all firms have the same probability of getting an efficiency score from any specified interval within the [0,1] range. We propose a bootstrap procedure that empirically generates the conditional distribution of efficiency for each individual firm given systematic factors that influence its efficiency. Instead of resampling directly from the pooled DEA scores, we first regress these scores on a set of explanatory variables not included at the DEA stage and bootstrap the residuals from this regression. These pseudo-efficiency scores incorporate the systematic effects of unit-specific factors along with the contribution of the randomly drawn residual. Data from the U.S. airline industry are utilized in an empirical application.

Jesus of Nazareth in the light of Jewish and Christian thought and history : a sunday lecture delivered January 10, 1926

by Samuel H. Goldenson

The threefold cord : being sketches of three treatises of the Talmud, Sanhedrin, Baba Metsia, and Baba Bathra ; with an appendix containing a lecture on the Shemonah peraḳim le-ha-Rambam, The eighth chapters of Maimonides

by B. Spiers

Les dimensions culturelles de l'enseignement de langues : des mots aux discours : notes de lecture

Fil: Azcona de Sánchez, Cristina. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo

Une lecture postmoderne : Volkswagen Blues de Jacques Poulin

Este artículo muestra cómo la búsqueda identitaria quebequense, se vuelve problemática, cuando compite con una mayoría anglófona. El punto nodal de este dilema ¿cómo se resuelve? ¿La evasión, la errancia, la deambulación, son salidas posibles? La tesis central: los actantes de Volkswagen Blues de Jacques Poulin, sufren un traumatismo monomaníaco: reconstruir una pertenencia por el sesgo de lo fragmentario, del indicio, de los signos, de los recuerdos. Esta obra es la eterna y circular peregrinación de todo ser excluido, exiliado, migrante o minoritario, en búsqueda de una especificidad totalizante y benéfica. Por otro lado, en lo que concierne al aspecto formal, el intertexto, a modo de fábulas encastradas unas en otras, o como fragmentos metadiegéticos, nos conduce a una lectura invertida, no canónica.