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Distance Estimation in Cosmology

open access: yes, 1995
In this paper we outline the framework of mathematical statistics with which one may study the properties of galaxy distance estimators. We describe, within this framework, how one may formulate the problem of distance estimation as a Bayesian inference ...
Bertschinger   +76 more
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The Impact of Digital Transformation on Public Health: A Multicountry Analysis

open access: yesHealth &Social Care in the Community, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
This study examines the impact of digital transformation on public health using global panel data for 94 countries from 2003 to 2021, applying feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) estimation with country–time clustered standard errors. It also investigates the mechanisms through which digital transformation affects public health from the ...
Mingchan Cheng   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Eficiência técnica da produção agrícola dos países da América Latina e do Caribe

open access: yesRevista de Economia e Sociologia Rural, 2020
Resumo: Este artigo estuda a eficiência técnica e a produtividade total dos fatores (PTF) da agricultura dos países da América Latina e do Caribe. Para tanto, utilizaram-se a abordagem de fronteira estocástica de produção e o índice de produtividade de ...
Lucas David Ribeiro Reis   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Malmquist productivity index decompositions: a unifying framework [PDF]

open access: yesApplied Economics, 2007
In two widely cited but unpublished working papers, Simar and Wilson (1998) and Zofío and Lovell (1998) proposed an alternative decomposition of the Malmquist Productivity Index, which retained what seemed to be the strongholds of previous proposals with regard to the contribution of technological and efficiency change to productivity change. Namely, a
openaire   +4 more sources

Measuring Carbon Emission Efficiency in a Developing Country: A Comparative Study of Sustainability Initiatives and Nonsustainability Initiatives of Manufacturing Firms

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, Volume 34, Issue 8, Page 9672-9699, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Improving carbon emission efficiency (CEE) is considered one of the most cost‐effective ways to enhance sustainability and address climate change mitigation in developing countries like India. This study analyzes manufacturing firms' CEE of sustainability initiatives (SI) and nonsustainability initiatives (non‐SI) and examines the effect of ...
Jahira Debbarma   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Efficiency Development in the German Pharmaceutical Market

open access: yesActa Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2020
Changes in Germany legislation since 2009 significantly limited the operation of German pharmacies. Since then, there has been a steady decline in the total number of pharmacies.
Tim Gaebert, Michaela Staňková
doaj   +1 more source

PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN THE CARIBBEAN: A MEASURE OF KEY COMPONENTS [PDF]

open access: yes
Productivity growth is decomposed into two components: technical change and efficiency change. This assesses their relative importance to the international competitiveness of the agricultural sectors of selected Caribbean countries.
Hutchinson, Sharon D., Langham, Max R.
core   +1 more source

ANÁLISE ENVOLTÓRIA DE DADOS NA AVALIAÇÃO DA EFICIÊNCIA TÉCNICA DAS DISTRIBUIDORAS DE ENERGIA ELÉTRICA BRASILEIRAS: UMA ABORDAGEM COMPARATIVA ENTRE O ÍNDICE DE MALMQUIST E WINDOW ANALYSIS

open access: yesRevista Ambiente Contábil, 2018
O setor elétrico exerce um papel relevante no cenário econômico, sendo responsável pela prestação de serviços para diversos segmentos da economia, envolvendo consumidores industriais, residenciais, comerciais, rurais e o poder público.
Atelmo Ferreira de Oliveira   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Return to Dollar, Generalized Distance Function and the Fisher Productivity Index [PDF]

open access: yes
Exploring the duality between a return to dollar definition of profit and the generalized distance function we establish the relationship between the Laspeyres, Paasche and Fisher productivity indexes and their alternative Malmquist indexes counterparts.
Prieto, Angel, Zofío, José Luis
core  

Malmquist Productivity Index on Efficiency Layers

open access: yesJournal of Mathematical Extension, 2012
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a popular linear programming technique is useful to rate comparatively operational effiency of decision Making Unit (DMU) based on the their deterministic inputoutput data.
F. Rezai balf ∗, M. Hatef
doaj  

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