A cautionary note on methods of comparing programmatic efficiency between two or more groups of DMUs in data envelopment analysis |
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Authors: | Gary Simpson |
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Institution: | (1) Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK |
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Abstract: | In some applications of data envelopment analysis (DEA) there may be doubt as to whether all the DMUs form a single group
with a common efficiency distribution. The Mann–Whitney rank statistic has been used to evaluate if two groups of DMUs come
from a common efficiency distribution under the assumption of them sharing a common frontier and to test if the two groups
have a common frontier. These procedures have subsequently been extended using the Kruskal–Wallis rank statistic to consider
more than two groups. This technical note identifies problems with the second of these applications of both the Mann–Whitney
and Kruskal–Wallis rank statistics. It also considers possible alternative methods of testing if groups have a common frontier,
and the difficulties of disaggregating managerial and programmatic efficiency within a non-parametric framework.
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Keywords: | Data envelopment analysis (DEA) Statistics Programmatic efficiency |
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