THE FDH ESTIMATOR FOR PRODUCTIVITY EFFICIENCY SCORES
生产率效率得分的自由处置包络估计量
In productivity analysis, the free disposal hull (FDH) is a nonparametric estimator for the production set, the set of inputs and outputs that are technically feasible. It is defined as the smallest free disposal set containing all observations in a sample of production units. One can then derive the production frontier and efficiency scores from the FDH. In the literature the method is used as if the FDH estimator were the true feasible set. However, assuming that…