title: A note on health care productivity with uncertain data.
abstract: The present paper suggests extending the FDH-method, known from the efficiency measurement literature, to cover interval production data. Interval data represent a direct way to handle data uncertainty and problems with data comparability which seem particularly prevalent concerning health care applications. We illustrate the method using a simple 1-input-2-output model on health care data from the OECD health statistics.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Studiestraede 6, 1455 Copenhagen K., Denmark. Jens.Leth.Hougaard@econ.ku.dk
authors.forename: Jens Leth
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Hougaard
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Overgaard
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004526:Efficiency; D006801:Humans; D013269:Stochastic Processes