Title
Evaluation of system efficiency using the Monte Carlo DEA: The case of small health areas.
Abstract
•Monte Carlo-DEA assessed the Small Health Areas (SHA) efficiency.•Expert knowledge assigned statistical distributions for the variables.•Input/output combinations analysed different perspectives of SHA efficiency.•Best combinations were used for benchmarking.•k-means analysis validated a panel of experts’ classification.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.ejor.2014.10.019
European Journal of Operational Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Data Envelopment Analysis,Simulation,Expert knowledge,Operations research in medicine,Efficiency of health care areas
Complex system,Health care,Data mining,Monte Carlo method,Data envelopment analysis,Knowledge base,Probabilistic logic,Mathematics,Operations management
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
242
2
0377-2217
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.38
29
Authors
4