Title
Evolutionary Product Unit Logistic Regression: The Case of Agrarian Efficiency
Abstract
By using a high-variability sample of real agrarian enterprises previously classified into two classes efficient and inefficient, a comparative study was carried out to demonstrate the classification accuracy of logistic regression algorithms based on evolutionary product-unit neural networks. Data envelopment analysis considering variable returns-to-scale BBC-DEA was chosen to classify selected farms 220 olive tree farms in dry farming as efficient or inefficient by using surveyed socio-economic variables agrarian year 2000. Once the sample was grouped by BCC-DEA, easy-to-collect descriptive variables concerning the farm and farmer were then used as independent variables in order to find a quick and reliable alternative for classifying agrarian enterprises as efficient or inefficient. Results showed that our proposal is very promising for the classification of complex structures farms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-24598-0_9
CAEPIA
Keywords
Field
DocType
Neural networks,Classification,Product-Unit,Evolutionary algorithms,Agrarian technical efficiency
Econometrics,Evolutionary algorithm,Agriculture,Variables,Data envelopment analysis,Artificial neural network,Logistic regression,Agrarian society,Geography
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9422
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
4