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RostamPour, S. (2012). An empirical method to measure the relative efficiency of dairy producers using deterministic frontier analysis.Management Science Letters , 2(1), 229-234.
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Berger, A. (1993). Distribution-free estimates of efficiency in the U.S. banking industry and tests of the standard distributional assumptions. Journal of Productivity Analysis, 4, 261–292.
Charnes A, Cooper, W. W., & Rhodes, E. (1978). Measuring the efficiency of decision making units. European Journal of the Operational Research, 2, 429–444.
Charnes A, Cooper W. W., Lewin, A., & Seiford, L. M. (1994). Data envelopment analysis: theory, methodology and applications. Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Coelli, T.J., Rao, D.S.P., O & apos; Donnell, C.J., Battese, G.E. (2005). An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, 2nd Ed. Springer, ISBN 978-0-387-24266-8.
Dios-Palomares, R., & Mart?nez-Paz, J.M. (2011). Technical, quality and environmental efficiency of the olive oil industry. Food Policy, 36(4),526-534.
Dimara, E., Skuras, D., Tsekouras, K., & Tzelepis, D. (2008). Productive efficiency and firm exit in the food sector. Food Policy, 33(2), 185-196.
F?re, R., Grosskopf, S., Lovell, C.A.K., & Yaisawarng, S. (1993). Derivation of shadow prices for undesirable outputs: a distance function approach. Review of Economics and Statistics, 75, 374–380.
Houthakker, H.S. (1955). The Pareto distribution and the Cobb–Douglas production function in activity analysis. The Review of Economic Studies, 23 (1), 27–31.
Iribarren, D., Hospido, A, Moreira, M. T., & Feijoo, G. (2011). Benchmarking environmental and operational parameters through eco-efficiency criteria for dairy farms. Science of The Total Environment, 409(10), 1786-1798.
Roghanian, E. & Foroughi, A. (2010). An empirical study of Iranian regional airports using robust data envelopment analysis. International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations, 1(1), 65-72.
Sedik, D., Trueblood, M., & Arnade, C. (1999). Corporate Farm Performance in Russia, 1991–1995: An Efficiency Analysis. Journal of Comparative Economics, 27(3), 514-533.
Troutt, M.D., Hu, M.Y., & Shanker, M.S. (2005). A distribution-free approach to estimating best response values with application to mutual fund performance modeling. European Journal of Operational Research, 166(2), 520-527.