Sentence examples for frontier methods from inspiring English sources

Frontier methods of efficiency measurement include linear programming techniques (e.g. data envelopment analysis) and econometric techniques (e.g. production and cost functions).

Assaf and Magnini (2012) used the distance stochastic frontier method and a balanced sample of leading hotel chains in the US to measure the hotel efficiency scores and examine the effects of customer satisfaction on the hotel rankings.

The overwhelming advances of the last few years in the field of nucleic acid-based technologies laid the basis for the development of this new technology as a frontier method not only to combat diseases and infections but also to study gene function.

Application of IQWIG's efficiency frontier method requires the assessment of previously existing therapies.

Cost-effectiveness analyses are conducted by IQWIG and they are based on the efficiency frontier method [ 12, 13].

Our analysis shows that the efficiency frontier method is suitable to serve such a purpose for DAAs in HCV therapy.

We apply the efficiency frontier method, which was suggested by German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care for cost-effectiveness analysis in Germany.

The recent partial frontier method of order-m was also used to estimate the influence of exogenous variables on the efficiency of the ACES.

We aim to analyze whether the problems outlined above prevent useful results if the efficiency frontier method is applied to DAAs for HCV in Germany.

In order to study efficiency, we applied DEA, a non-parametric full frontier method based on linear programming technique with data from two consecutive years.

It is a non-parametric frontier method which uses linear programming to evaluate the relative technical efficiency of an individual hospital based on observed data.