Efficiency Measures in the Agricultural Sector With Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mendes, Armando B. (Editor), L. D. G. Soares da Silva, Emiliana (Editor), Azevedo Santos, Jorge M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Environment.; Mathematical optimization.; Statistics.; Environmental sciences.; Agricultural economics.; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science.; Agricultural Economics.; Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance.; Optimization.

Efficiency Measures in the Agricultural Sector opens with detailed descriptions of measurement techniques such as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA), which are often used to support models in analysis of agricultural productivity, based on mathematical programming...