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This paper provides a bootstrap methodology for constructing confidence intervals for means of DEA and econometrically estimated efficiency scores, Malmquist productivity indices, and other similar measures in small samples. The procedure is nonparametric since no distributional assumptions are required. An empirical example is provided.
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This research was performed while Wilson was under contract with the Management Science Group, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Bedford, MA 01730.
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Atkinson, S.E., Wilson, P.W. Comparing mean efficiency and productivity scores from small samples: A bootstrap methodology. J Prod Anal 6, 137–152 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01073408
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