Sensitivity and stability analysis in dea

Municipal Sustainability Influence by European Union Investment Programs on the Portuguese Local Government

“…In other words, entire samples are considered in these analyses. However, and regarding nonparametric methods-data envelopment analysis (DEA) and free disposal hull (FDH) [39]-full frontiers are particularly prone to the presence of outliers, extreme values, and the curse of dimensionality, which biases the results by overestimating the extent of inefficiency. The adoption of partial frontiers, like order-m and order-α [40], seems to be more appropriate for (in) efficiency assessment in local government since they are less sensitive to these effects.…”

On the Measurement of the Environmental Performance of Firms— A Literature Review and a Productive Efficiency Perspective

“…Among these advantages are the robustness of the linear programming methods used to solve DEA problems and the new insights and additional information it provides with respect to conventional econometric methods. Charnes et al (1985) also noted that a variable that is neither an economic resource nor a product, but is an attribute of the environment or of the production process, can be included easily in a DEA-based production model. To the best of our knowledge, only one DEA model-in the strict sense as defined above, i.e.…”

Cost-Benefit Analysis on Chinese Higher Education Resources Based on Data Envelopment Analysis

“…In 1984, DEA model was further modified by Banker, Charnes and Cooper to build technical and scale efficiency evaluation model (Model C2B) based on variable returns to scale (VRS). Sensibility analysis of DEA model, proposed by Charnes et al in 1985, is used to re-evaluate the efficiency value by reducing input-output variables or the number of DMUs .…”