Production and Efficiency Analysis with R

• Main Author: Behr, Andreas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Statistics.; Production management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Industrial engineering.; Production engineering.; Econometrics.; Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance.; Operations Management.; Industrial and Production Engineering.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.

This textbook introduces essential topics and techniques in production and efficiency analysis and shows how to apply these methods using the statistical software R. Numerous small simulations lead to a deeper understanding of random processes assumed in the models and of the behavior of estimation...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Linear Production Model
• Production Functions
• Production Functions with Panel Data
• Introduction to Linear Programming
• Data Envelopment Analysis
• Stochastic Data Envelopment Analysis
• Stochastic Frontier Analysis
• Panel Data Stochastic Frontier Analysis.