Benchmarking with DEA, SFA, and R

This book covers recent advances in efficiency evaluations, most notably Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Shastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) methods. It introduces the underlying theories, shows how to make the relevant calculations and discusses applications. The aim is to make the reader aware of the pros and cons of the different methods and to show how to use these methods in both standard and non-standard cases.

Several software packages have been developed to solve some of the mos…