2002
DOI: 10.1590/s0101-74382002000200006
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Contruction of a smoothed DEA frontier

Abstract: It is known that the DEA multipliers model does not allow a unique solution for the weights. This is due to the absence of unique derivatives in the extreme-efficient points, which is a consequence of the piecewise linear nature of the frontier. In this paper we propose a method to solve this problem, consisting of changing the original DEA frontier for a new one, smooth (with continuous derivatives at every point) and closest to the original frontier. We present the theoretical development for the general cas… Show more

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“…The values mentioned hereabove are the first ones calculated by the software we have used. This paper did not go further on multiplier analysis (for instance those carried out by Rosen et al 1998 or by Soares de Mello et al 2002).…”
Section: Dea Bcc Results Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The values mentioned hereabove are the first ones calculated by the software we have used. This paper did not go further on multiplier analysis (for instance those carried out by Rosen et al 1998 or by Soares de Mello et al 2002).…”
Section: Dea Bcc Results Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Meanwhile, the trade-offs for the outputs are unique, given the target on the frontier. This occurs because the smoothed frontier is differentiable in its entire domain, with unique tangent hyperplanes for each projection defining the sets of multipliers and the tradeoffs (Mello et al, 2002). Figure 1 shows a schematic example of a piecewise frontier (solid line) and the corresponding smoothed frontier (dotted line).…”
Section: Dea Efficiency Frontiermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A different method, proposed by Mello et al (2002), consists of looking for a function that minimises the arc length (or its n-dimensional generalisation) and contains the vertices of the piecewise frontier. The minimisation of an arc length (or a surface function for the three-dimensional case) must be addressed by the Problem of the Minimal Surface.…”
Section: Formulation For Smoothing Of a Dea Frontiermentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…das funções e suas derivadas, uma vez que a fronteira suavizada deve estar não só próxima da original, como também possuir derivadas semelhantes às dela, onde existirem as derivadas (Soares de Mello, 2002;Soares de Mello et al, 2002. No caso bidimensional, deve-se considerar o fato de que a região da fronteira que contém 2 DMUs eficientes consecutivas é um segmento de reta -que é o menor comprimento de arco entre dois pontos.…”
Section: Suavização Da Fronteira Dea Ccrunclassified