Package: Benchmarking
Type: Package
Title: Benchmark and frontier analysis using DEA and SFA (BeDS)
Version: 0.18
Date: 2011-02-6 ($Date: 2011-02-04 10:50:57 +0100 (fr, 04 feb 2011) $)
Author: Peter Bogetoft and Lars Otto
Maintainer: Lars Otto <lo@foi.dk>
Depends: lpSolveAPI, ucminf
Suggests: FEAR
Description: The package contains methods to support frontier analysis.
It covers Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). DEA is supported
under different technology assumptions (fdh, vrs, drs, crs,
irs, add/frh, and fdh+), and using different efficiency
measures (input based, output based, hyperbolic graph,
additive, super, and directional efficency). Peers and slacks
are available, partial price information can be included, and
optimal cost, revenue and profit can be calculated. Evaluation
of mergers is also supported.  Methods for graphing the
technology sets are also included. The package also support
comparative methods based on Stochastic Frontier Analyses
(SFA). In general, the methods can be used to solve not only
standard models, but also many other model variants. The
package complements the book, Bogetoft and Otto, Benchmarking
with DEA, SFA, and R, Springer-Verlag, 2011, but can of course
also be used as a stand-alone package.
License: GPL (>= 2)
LazyLoad: yes
Packaged: 2011-02-06 11:36:51 UTC; Lars
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2011-02-06 16:21:08

Package: Benchmarking
Type: Package
Title: Benchmark and frontier analysis using DEA and SFA
Version: 0.19
Date: 2011-04-15 ($Date: 2011-04-15 10:59:29 +0200 (fr, 15 apr 2011) $)
Author: Peter Bogetoft and Lars Otto
Maintainer: Lars Otto <lo@foi.dk>
Depends: lpSolveAPI, ucminf
Suggests: FEAR
Description: The package contains methods to support frontier analysis.
It covers Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). DEA is supported
under different technology assumptions (fdh, vrs, drs, crs,
irs, add/frh, and fdh+), and using different efficiency
measures (input based, output based, hyperbolic graph,
additive, super, and directional efficency). Peers and slacks
are available, partial price information can be included, and
optimal cost, revenue and profit can be calculated. Evaluation
of mergers is also supported.  Methods for graphing the
technology sets are also included. The package also support
comparative methods based on Stochastic Frontier Analyses
(SFA). In general, the methods can be used to solve not only
standard models, but also many other model variants. The
package complements the book, Bogetoft and Otto, Benchmarking
with DEA, SFA, and R, Springer-Verlag, 2011, but can of course
also be used as a stand-alone package.
License: GPL (>= 2)
LazyLoad: yes
Packaged: 2011-04-15 09:16:02 UTC; Lars
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2011-04-15 10:29:26