A new method for detecting outliers in Data Envelopment Analysis

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2008
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Oxford, UK: Routledge
Abstract

We introduce a simple method for detecting outliers in Data Envelopment Analysis. The method is based on two scalar measures. The first is the relative frequency with which an observation appears in the construction of the frontier when testing the efficiency of other observations, and the second is the cumulative weight of an observation in the construction of the frontier. We provide a link to computer programming code for implementing the procedure.

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Economic analyses, Farm/Enterprise Scale
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Applied Economics Letters, 17(4):313-316