Robustness of Farrell cost efficiency measurement under data perturbations: Evidence from a US manufacturing application

Mathematics

• Cost Efficiency 100%
• Data Perturbation 89%
• Manufacturing 67%
• Uncertainty 50%
• Robustness 50%
• Evidence 50%
• Data Envelopment Analysis 19%
• Scenarios 18%
• Robust Optimization 17%
• Output 14%
• Economics 11%
• Technical Efficiency 11%
• Framework 7%
• Model-based 6%
• Determinant 5%
• Upper and Lower Bounds 5%
• Minimise 5%
• Costs 4%
• Context 4%
• Numerical Examples 4%
• Approximation 3%
• Model 2%

Business & Economics

• Robustness 74%
• Efficiency Measurement 73%
• Perturbation 67%
• Manufacturing 55%
• Uncertainty 35%
• Endogenous Uncertainty 24%
• United States of America 24%
• Robust Optimization 18%
• Efficiency Measures 16%
• Economic Efficiency 14%
• Scenarios 14%
• Data Envelopment Analysis 12%
• Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) 11%
• Negligence 9%
• Input Prices 8%
• Allocation Problem 8%
• Upper Bound 7%
• Lower Bounds 7%
• Praxis 7%
• Technical Efficiency 7%
• Managers 7%
• Production Cost 6%
• Approximation 6%
• Usefulness 6%
• Decision Maker 5%

Engineering & Materials Science

• Uncertainty 37%
• Costs 22%
• Data envelopment analysis 18%
• Economics 8%
• Managers 5%
• Industry 2%